Hot Friends of Hot Jupiters: The WASP-47 system
Ever since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...
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Oct 16, 20153 min read
Comets or Aliens?
Let’s deal with the big question first. Has Planet Hunters discovered aliens? The answer is no. But that doesn’t mean that all of the...
Mar 24, 20151 min read
Extracted Lightcurves From Vanderburg & Johnson (2014) Now Available at MAST
A new MAST High Level Science Product from K2 has been delivered that includes extracted lightcurves. Courtesy of Vanderburg & Johnson...
Jan 8, 20154 min read
A Recipe for Making a K2 Light Curve
Today we have a post by Andrew Vanderburg. Andrew is a graduate student at Harvard University who works on producing and correcting K2...
Dec 12, 20143 min read
More About the K2 Campaign 0
Now that were in the midst of the showing the first batch of science grade data from the K2 mission, I thought I’d give some more...
Dec 8, 20141 min read
Kepler 2.0
It’s up! The first science data from the new Kepler K2 mission is up on Planet Hunters just waiting to be looked at for new planets,...
Sep 18, 20143 min read
A Brand New Planet Hunters
On December 16, 2010, the Zooniverse launched Planet Hunters to enlist the public’s help to search for extrasolar planets (exoplanets) in...
Sep 9, 20142 min read
Coming soon…..
Yesterday marks the start of a new era for the Kepler spacecraft with the public release of the first observations from K2, the...
Aug 18, 20143 min read
The Kepler in TESS
By the end of September, the first science grade K2 observations from Campaign 0 should be made available to the astronomical community...
Jun 16, 20141 min read
K2 keeps on rolling – the start of Campaign 1 observations
NASA has recently approved funding for the two-wheeled Kepler mission dubbed ‘K2.’ Field 0 was an engineering field that Kepler started...
May 16, 20143 min read
Welcome to the Era of K2
Image Credit: NASA Ames/ W Stenzel Last August, I wrote about the end of Kepler’s original mission as it had been operating for the past...
Nov 18, 20134 min read
K2 – Kepler’s (Proposed) 2nd Exoplanet Mission
K2 mountain, the 2nd highest peak in the world Image credit: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:K2_2006b.jpg) In May, Kepler...
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