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    • Nov 4, 2015
    • 3 min

    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...
    • Oct 16, 2015
    • 3 min

    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...
    Extracted Lightcurves From Vanderburg & Johnson (2014) Now Available at MAST
    • Mar 24, 2015
    • 1 min

    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...
    • Dec 8, 2014
    • 1 min

    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,...
    Blurry Eyes and Stellar Contamination in the Kepler Light curves
    • Nov 18, 2014
    • 3 min

    Blurry Eyes and Stellar Contamination in the Kepler Light curves

    The light curves you see on Planet Hunters are not always the light of a single star. Kepler has very very precise but blurry vision. The...
    • Sep 18, 2014
    • 3 min

    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...
    An Introduction to MAST
    • Feb 24, 2014
    • 3 min

    An Introduction to MAST

    Today we have a guest post from Scott Fleming. Scott is a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, located in Baltimore, MD,...
    K2 – Kepler’s (Proposed) 2nd Exoplanet Mission
    • Nov 18, 2013
    • 4 min

    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...
    • Oct 21, 2013
    • 2 min

    What to do with a 2-wheeled Kepler?

    Now that Kepler is officially 2-wheeled,  NASA and the Kepler team are looking at what Kepler could be re-purposed to do. Except for...
    Thoughts on the (possible) death of Kepler
    • May 15, 2013
    • 3 min

    Thoughts on the (possible) death of Kepler

    Today brought some incredibly sad news to planet hunters everywhere. The Kepler satellite, which has provided all the data which has fed...
    • Apr 13, 2013
    • 2 min

    Kepler’s Successor

    Recently NASA selected the next set of missions for the Explorer Program to be launched in 2017 from four proposed  mission concepts. The...
    The Kepler Extended Mission
    • Nov 12, 2012
    • 2 min

    The Kepler Extended Mission

    Image Credit: NASA/Kepler Team Today marks the successful end of Kepler‘s primary mission. Kepler has revolutionized the field of...
    • Apr 4, 2012
    • 3 min

    Kepler Gets an Extended Mission

    The NASA Senior Review panel decisions are in. The panel assessed Kepler and several other astrophysics missions including Hubble Space...
    BBC Stargazing Live
    • Jan 16, 2012
    • 2 min

    BBC Stargazing Live

    We at Planet Hunters are thrilled to be part of this year’s BBC Stargazing Live  – three nights of astronomy programing featured on the...
    • Jan 5, 2012
    • 2 min

    A Good Start to 2012

    Happy New Year and Happy 2012 Everyone – We’ve got lots in store for 2012. I wanted to give you a quick update on what the team’s been up...
    The First Kepler Science Conference
    • Dec 10, 2011
    • 2 min

    The First Kepler Science Conference

    Greetings from the Cleaveland airport, I’m on my way back to Yale from California. This past week I’ve been attending y the First Kepler...
    • Sep 23, 2011
    • 1 min

    A word from Bill Borucki: Kepler P.I.

    Dear Planet Hunters: I’m writing to congratulate you on your wonderful discovery of some unique new planet candidates.  I began designing...
    “Tatooine” discovered by Kepler
    • Sep 16, 2011
    • 1 min

    “Tatooine” discovered by Kepler

    Today’s breaking news is that the Kepler team have discovered a planet orbiting two suns, just like the fictional home planet of Luke...
    • Aug 13, 2011
    • 1 min

    Q3 Data Release Annoucement

    The Kepler team announced yesterday the release of Q3 data has moved up from June 2012 to September 23rd. Q3 is about 90 days of...
    • Mar 10, 2011
    • 2 min

    Gaps in the Data

    I wanted to give a brief update on the gap question and talk a little more about what causes those gaps in the data. You might have...
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