Researchers release a big dataset to help crowdsource the search for exoplanets

What are you up over President’s Day weekend? If you didn’t answer “searching for exoplanets,” it’s time to seriously reconsider your priorities and head on over to a new dataset released by the Carnegie Institution for Science and MIT. The data dump includes around 61,000 measurements of 1,600 nearby stars. The information, which was collected by Hawaii’s W.M.