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...
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Oct 15, 20122 min read
Planet Hunters’s First Circumbinary Planet- A True Team Effort
Today we have a guest post by Planet Hunters Robert Gagliano and Kian Jek, the discoverers of PH1, our first confirmed planet and first...
Sep 9, 20121 min read
PlanetHunters sounding good…
PlanetHunters has inspired all sorts of activity, and all sorts of people, but I think one of the most creative responses yet is in a new...
Jun 8, 20126 min read
Turning a planet candidate into a bona fide planet
Today we have a guest post by Tom Barclay, Tom is a member of the Kepler team and also a collaborator and co-author on our second Planet...
May 1, 20127 min read
Searching for Earthlike Worlds
Today’s post is a guest post by Tony Hoffman. He’s a fellow Planet Hunter and is also one of our Planet Hunters Talk moderators. Today...
Mar 30, 20123 min read
Direct Imaging of Planets
HR8799 direct imaging planet detections Credit: Marois et al (2010) Today we have a guest blog from Sasha Hinkley talking about a...
Mar 8, 20122 min read
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...
Feb 28, 20122 min read
2nd Planet Hunters Paper Submitted
Way back in January I blogged about our announcement of two new candidates, confidently predicting that the paper would be out in the...
Jan 9, 20122 min read
Two new discoveries announced at AAS
We’re delighted to announce that you’ve done it again, with two new planet hunters discoveries being announced at the 219th meeting of...
Sep 27, 20111 min read
A word from planet hunter Geoff Marcy
Dear Planet Hunters, The Planet Hunters project has found a gold mine! I am so impressed at the planet candidates rolling out of Planet...
Sep 26, 20112 min read
Adaptive Optics Follow-up Observations
Today’s blog post come’s from guest blogger Justin Crepp, co-author on our first Planet Hunters paper. Justin is an expert in adaptive...
Sep 24, 20112 min read
Updated Planet Candidates List and Q3 data
Hi all, We’ve just updated the Candidates List to reflect what we’ve learned from Q1 and from a preliminary look through the Q2 data so...
Sep 23, 20111 min read
A word from Bill Borucki: Kepler P.I.
Dear Planet Hunters: I’m writing to congratulate you on your wonderful discovery of some unique new planet candidates. I began designing...
Sep 21, 20111 min read
A Citizen Science Win
With all the news coverage about “Tatooine” orbiting two stars, we were very excited to learn that in that most wretched hive of scum and...
Sep 16, 20111 min read
“Tatooine” discovered by Kepler
Today’s breaking news is that the Kepler team have discovered a planet orbiting two suns, just like the fictional home planet of Luke...
Aug 3, 20112 min read
What’s in a Name?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Rome and Juliet, William Shakespeare Image Credit:...
Jul 27, 20115 min read
Multi-transiting Planet Systems Part II
Today’s post is part two completing the series by guest blogger Darin Ragozzine. Darin is a Caltech Ph.D. and currently a postdoc at the...
Jul 20, 20114 min read
Multi-transiting Planet Systems Part I
Today’s post is part one of a two part series by guest blogger by Darin Ragozzine. He’ll be talking about multi-planet transiting...
Mar 23, 20113 min read
Science and Progress: Short Period Planets in Q1
Chris Lintott (Zookeeper Chris) and I wanted to give an update on what the team is working on and some of the changes made to the PH site...
Mar 21, 20111 min read
Q2 Data now fully online!
Hi all – The Q2 data (chopped up into Q2.1, Q2.2 and Q2.3) are now fully online. Since these data cover a much longer time frame than...
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