Hot Friends of Hot Jupiters: The WASP-47 system
Ever since a mechanical failure caused the end of the original Kepler mission in 2013, the Kepler spacecraft has been conducting a survey...
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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,...
- Jan 30, 2011
- 2 min
New Kepler Data: Feb 1
By Zak Kaplan (Yale undergrad) Planet Hunters has just completed its first analysis of the Kepler data! With your classifications, we...
- Dec 25, 2010
- 2 min
Quiet Stars (examples)
Thanks very much for your help with this project. At last count, roughly 50,000 light curves had been sorted at planethunters.org. Many...
- Dec 18, 2010
- 2 min
Stellar Variability
Greetings from Kevin Schawinski and Meg Schwamb, postdoctoral fellows at Yale and members of the Science Team. Wow, we’ve been blown away...
- Dec 16, 2010
- 3 min
Planet Hunters Introduction
Hi, I’m Meg Schwamb a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and member of the Planet Hunters Team. Welcome to Planet Hunters! We’ve been...
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