Planet Hunters TESS II: results from the first two years
We have some very exciting news: our paper summarising the results from the first two years of Planet Hunters TESS has been accepted for...
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Oct 22, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week: RR Lyrae
The above light curve, with its periodic increase and decrease in brightness, has the clear signature of an RR Lyrae stars. The...
May 28, 20201 min read
Lightcurve of the week: reflection effect EB
This week we have an exotic EB, explained to us by Dr. Cole Johnston, where the primary star is a subdwarf which is the stripped...
Apr 30, 20201 min read
W-shaped dips in M-dwarf lightcurves
Planet Hunters TESS users have identified two very interesting lightcurves of M-dwarf stars that show repeating patterns that are...
Apr 23, 20201 min read
A circumbinary Planet from TESS, with the help of Planet Hunters TESS
A new paper released this week and accepted by the Astronomical Journal (https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07783) announced the discovery of...
Apr 9, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week: EB
Many stars are not alone, but instead form part of a multi-stellar system of two or more stars that are gravitationally bound together....
Mar 26, 20202 min read
Light curve(s) of the week: asteroid
Asteroids are small rocky bodies that are left over from the time of the formation of the Solar System. They range in sizes from small...
Mar 12, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week: YSO?
The pattern seen in this light curve could be due to the variability of a young stellar object (YSO), which is often related to a disc...
Mar 5, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week
Some stars are quiet, Some stars pulsate, Some stars are single, Some have a mate. This is a pulsating star in a binary system. Thank you...
Feb 27, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week: tidally distorted EB
This week we have an EB where the two stars get so close to one another that their gravitational pull distorts their shapes, changing it...
Feb 20, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week
The light curve of TIC 394177355 was already flagged by the Kepler team (KOI-3156) when it was observed back in 2015. It shows a...
Feb 13, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week
This week we have a beautiful Delta Scuti variable that shows both primary and secondary eclipses caused by a second star. The beat-like...
Feb 6, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week
This is a light curve of an eclipsing binary with some strange out-of-transit-variability. The transit depths suggest that there is one...
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Searching for Disks
In addition to planets, there are many other interesting and unexplained systems to be found within the TESS data. Professor Matthew...
Jan 30, 20201 min read
Light curve of the week
This beautiful dwarf nova has so far been observed by TESS in all of the northern hemisphere observational sectors released to date...
Jan 27, 20203 min read
Exploring the impact of Planet Hunters: key findings
Dr. Annaleise Depper (Evaluation Officer, Public Engagement with Research) at the University of Oxford shares the results and findings...
Jan 23, 20202 min read
Light curve of the week
TESS looks at thousands of stars every night providing us with some of the most beautiful, strange and mysterious light curves. Here is...
Dec 19, 20192 min read
Planet Hunters TESS Mobile: swipe right for planets
It has been an extremely exciting year for Planter Hunters TESS and we have identified multiple potential new planetary systems. Due to...
Dec 6, 20192 min read
Happy Birthday PHT!
It has been exactly a year since the first public TESS data release and the launch of Planet Hunters TESS! Thank you to everyone who has...
Nov 28, 20193 min read
Reach for the Stars
Like many of you, I am extremely eager to find those tiny, elusive dips in the TESS lightcurves that reveal the existence of a distant,...
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