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    Planet Hunters TESS
    • Dec 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    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...
    • 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...
    The Search for Supereccentric Jupiters
    • 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...
    Close Distance: Short Film About Hunting for Planets
    • 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...
    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...
    • 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:...
    • 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,...
    Turning Planetary Systems on Their Heads (Gently)
    • 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...
    Growing Planets Around Binary Stars
    • 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...
    Flatter than a Pancake
    • 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),...
    The Road to Characterizing PH1: Transits and Initial Modeling
    • 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...
    More PH1 Artwork
    • 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...
    The Road to Characterizing PH1: The Overview
    • Oct 18, 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...
    The Road to Characterizing PH1: Visual-band Imaging
    • 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...
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