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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, 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dec 11, 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...
- 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...