Singaporean helps to find new unusual planet

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Singaporean helps to find new unusual planet

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Congrats to Mr Jek for doing our country proud. :)

http://www.overseassingaporean.sg/artic ... ual-planet
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Check out this article "Like Going Home Again" by Jek Kian Jin. (PDF). Page 19 - 25.

http://www.nuss.org.sg/FileStore/pdfsto ... 0_2011.pdf

Extract:

"Back then, in the 1970s, the sky in Singapore was clear enough for us to see most stars and constellations. On certain nights in June and July, the Milky Way was almost overhead."
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"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
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