Astronomer helping NASA spacecraft explore beyond Pluto

The computer found it first - Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 - but University of Virginia astronomer Anne Verbiscer was the "human backup" who found it next. She confirmed the finding for NASA by using the same technique that astronomer Clyde Tombaugh used to discover Pluto back in 1930: blinking two images of star fields to see if any tiny points of light moved.