Planet Hunters TESS
Welcome to our new Planet Hunters TESS project! TESS is NASA’s new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which will spend the next two...
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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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Mar 19, 2014
- 2 min
The Search for Supereccentric Jupiters
Today we have a guest post from Bekki Dawson. Bekki is a Miller postdoctoral fellow at the UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy. Her...
- Dec 2, 2013
- 1 min
Close Distance: Short Film About Hunting for Planets
Close Distance is a short film created by Stefano Nurra & Florian Schwarz. It compares the lives of citizen scientist Caroyln Bol, who...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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 19, 2012
- 3 min
The Planet Characterizer
Today we have a guest post from Seth Redfield. Seth is an Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Before Wesleyan,...
- Nov 23, 2012
- 3 min
Turning Planetary Systems on Their Heads (Gently)
Today we have a guest post from Nate Kaib. Nate is a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University. In terms of research, his main...
- Nov 6, 2012
- 3 min
Growing Planets Around Binary Stars
Today we have a guest post from Stefano Meschiari. Stefano is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. He works on...
- Nov 2, 2012
- 2 min
Flatter than a Pancake
Today we have a guest post from Julia Fang. Julia is an astronomer and grad student at UCLA working with Jean-Luc Margot. She works on...
- 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 25, 2012
- 3 min
The Road to Characterizing PH1: Transits and Initial Modeling
Today we have a blog post from Dirk Terrell. Dirk is an astrophysicist and the manager of the Astronomy and Computer Systems section at...
- Oct 23, 2012
- 1 min
More PH1 Artwork
Today we have a blog post from Dirk Terrell. Dirk is an astrophysicist and the manager of the Astronomy and Computer Systems section at...
- Oct 19, 2012
- 5 min
The Road to Characterizing PH1: The Overview
Haven Giguere/Yale It’s been an exciting week for exoplanets with the discovery of PH1 and the discovery of an Earth-mass planet around...
- Oct 16, 2012
- 3 min
The Road to Characterizing PH1: Visual-band Imaging
Today we have a guest post from Bill Keel. Bill is a member of the science team for Galaxy Zoo, and is more accustomed to dealing with...