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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...
    The Role of Planetary Migration in the Evolution of the Solar System
    • May 9, 2014
    • 6 min

    The Role of Planetary Migration in the Evolution of the Solar System

    In the past two decades, exoplanet hunters have discovered almost 1800 planets beyond the Solar System, and there is more than twice that...
    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...
    What Do We Really Understand About Planetary Formation?
    • Jan 14, 2014
    • 4 min

    What Do We Really Understand About Planetary Formation?

    It’s fair to say that there are a lot of gaps to fill in our knowledge of exoplanetary bodies, and 2013 proved to be a good year for...
    Comet ISON and the Best Studied Planetary System
    • Nov 30, 2013
    • 4 min

    Comet ISON and the Best Studied Planetary System

    This Thursday, the Solar System put on a celestial performance, and we had a front row seat to the spectacle. Long period Comet ISON made...
    Exploring the Tiny Planetary System of Kepler-90
    • Nov 4, 2013
    • 2 min

    Exploring the Tiny Planetary System of Kepler-90

    We recently posted news of a Planet Hunters planet discovered as part of a seven-planet system. Dubbed Kepler-90 this system is a...
    • Oct 15, 2013
    • 1 min

    Spotting RR Lyrae Stars

    RR Lyrae stars are a special type of variable star that changes in brightness due to radial pulsations that increase and decrease 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...
    A Planet Hunters Review of the Kepler Transit Candidate List
    • May 2, 2013
    • 4 min

    A Planet Hunters Review of the Kepler Transit Candidate List

    The Kepler team uses automated routines, specifically the Transiting Planet Search (TPS) algorithm, to search for transit signals in 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,...
    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 12, 2012
    • 1 min

    Live Chat at 3pm GMT Today

    Later today (3PM GMT / 9am CST) we’ll be holding a Google+ Hangout on Air to talk about Planet Hunters science and news. The video feed...
    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),...
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