#transits

Planet Hunters: TESS results now on MAST

Since Planet Hunters launched in 2010, we’ve made all sorts of interesting discoveries, but apart from the occasional blog posted here...

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...

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...

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,...

Closer to Home

As I write this blog post, the transit of Venus is ongoing, with Venus finishing its slow march across the face of the Sun in less than...

The Transit of Venus and the Scale of the Universe

I’ll start by introducing myself as I’m not involved in Planethunters, but Meg asked me if I could write an article for you here about...

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...

Eclipsing binaries vs transits

It’s Christmas Eve and I’m starting a five-night observing run at the Keck Telescope using a high-resolution spectrograph (HIRES) to...

Transiting Planets

Hi I’m Matt, a graduate student at Yale University and a member of the Science Team. We’re really impressed with the turnout so far on...