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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...
- Oct 30, 2014
- 2 min
A New Paper and New Planet Discoveries
Today we have a post from Joey Schmitt, a graduate student in the Astronomy department at Yale University, where he is working with the...
- Jul 1, 2014
- 2 min
Latest Science Paper Accepted for Publication: The First Kepler Seven Planet Candidate System and 13
Today we have a post from Joey Schmitt, a graduate student in the Astronomy department at Yale University, where he is working with the...
- Oct 1, 2013
- 2 min
PH2 b Paper Accepted
Today’s post is from Ji Wang. Ji is a post-doctoral associate working with Planet Hunters at Yale University. He obtained his PhD at the...
- Aug 17, 2013
- 2 min
A mysterious object no more
This post is by Tabby Boyajian, one of the Planet Hunters science team at Yale As you all know, planethunter volunteers use archive data...
- Mar 29, 2013
- 3 min
PH1 Paper Offically Accepted for Publication
Last October we announced the discovery of PH1 – a four star planetary system hosting a circumbinary planet (PH1b). The transits were...
- Mar 18, 2013
- 1 min
PH1 Paper Resubmitted
Just a quick note to say that I’ve resubmitted the PH1 paper back to the Astrophysical Journal last week. Many thanks to my co-authors...
- Mar 14, 2013
- 7 min
More about the Discovery of PH2-b
The project’s second confirmed planet, PH2-b (a Jupiter-sized gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star), was discovered by several...
- Feb 25, 2013
- 1 min
Revising the PH1 Paper
I just wanted to give you all a quick update on the PH1 paper. We submitted the paper in October to a scientific journal, Astrophysical...
- Jan 9, 2013
- 9 min
A Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates Part 2
For our latest planet candidates paper, there were many volunteers who helped identify these potential transits on Talk. To thank all of...
- Jan 7, 2013
- 3 min
A Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates
Artistic rendition of a sunset view from the perspective of an imagined Earth-like moon orbiting the giant planet, PH2 b. Image Credit:...
- Dec 23, 2012
- 1 min
Happy Holidays
Image Credit: Steve Harris (swh) from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveharris/5255090489/ Happy Holidays and Merry Northern...
- Dec 16, 2012
- 1 min
Happy 2nd Anniversary
It’s been two years since everyone embarked on the Planet Hunters adventure. To celebrate we’ve created another anniversary poster,...
- Dec 9, 2012
- 1 min
New Publications Page
With the start of December, it’s that time of year again. The Zooniverse Advent Calendar is back. Each day this month, a door opens and...
- Nov 13, 2012
- 2 min
Status of the PH1 Paper
We had submitted the PH1 paper to the Astrophysical Journal about a month ago and released the submitted draft on the public arXiv.org...
- Oct 28, 2012
- 4 min
The Road to Characterizing PH1: Stellar Evolution Models
Today we have a guest post from Willie Torres. Willie is an astronomer the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA),...
- Oct 15, 2012
- 2 min
PH1 : A planet in a four-star system
Image credit: Haven Giguere/Yale Today we’re pleased to announce the discovery of the first confirmed planet discovered by Planet...
- May 30, 2012
- 5 min
Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets
You might remember that I’ve been working on a systematic search of the Q1 light curves to examine the frequencies of large planets (> 2...
- Mar 8, 2012
- 2 min
New Planet Hunters Co-discoveries
When I posted with news of our second paper’s submission last week I mentioned that the new paper from the Kepler team included a section...