Nov 4, 20153 minHot Friends of Hot Jupiters: The WASP-47 systemEver since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...
Oct 16, 20153 minComets 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, 20142 minA New Paper and New Planet DiscoveriesToday 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, 20142 minLatest Science Paper Accepted for Publication: The First Kepler Seven Planet Candidate System and 13Today 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, 20132 minPH2 b Paper AcceptedToday’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, 20132 minA mysterious object no moreThis 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, 20133 minPH1 Paper Offically Accepted for PublicationLast October we announced the discovery of PH1 – a four star planetary system hosting a circumbinary planet (PH1b). The transits were...
Mar 18, 20131 minPH1 Paper ResubmittedJust 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, 20137 minMore about the Discovery of PH2-bThe project’s second confirmed planet, PH2-b (a Jupiter-sized gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star), was discovered by several...
Feb 25, 20131 minRevising the PH1 PaperI 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, 20139 minA Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates Part 2For our latest planet candidates paper, there were many volunteers who helped identify these potential transits on Talk. To thank all of...
Jan 7, 20133 minA Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet CandidatesArtistic rendition of a sunset view from the perspective of an imagined Earth-like moon orbiting the giant planet, PH2 b. Image Credit:...
Dec 23, 20121 minHappy HolidaysImage Credit: Steve Harris (swh) from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveharris/5255090489/ Happy Holidays and Merry Northern...
Dec 16, 20121 minHappy 2nd AnniversaryIt’s been two years since everyone embarked on the Planet Hunters adventure. To celebrate we’ve created another anniversary poster,...
Dec 9, 20121 minNew Publications PageWith 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, 20122 minStatus of the PH1 PaperWe 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, 20124 minThe Road to Characterizing PH1: Stellar Evolution ModelsToday we have a guest post from Willie Torres. Willie is an astronomer the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (Cambridge, MA),...
Oct 15, 20122 minPH1 : A planet in a four-star systemImage credit: Haven Giguere/Yale Today we’re pleased to announce the discovery of the first confirmed planet discovered by Planet...
May 30, 20125 minAssessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period PlanetsYou 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, 20122 minNew Planet Hunters Co-discoveriesWhen 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...