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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...
    • 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...
    A mysterious object no more
    • 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...
    More about the Discovery of PH2-b
    • 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...
    A Newly Confirmed Planet and 42 Additional Planet Candidates
    • 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:...
    Happy Holidays
    • 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...
    Happy 2nd Anniversary
    • 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),...
    PH1 : A planet in a four-star system
    • 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...
    Assessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period Planets
    • 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...
    New Planet Hunters Co-discoveries
    • 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...
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