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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...
Jul 19, 20192 min read
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...
Nov 4, 20153 min read
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...
Oct 16, 20153 min read
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,...
Dec 8, 20141 min read


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...
Jun 6, 20124 min read


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...
May 28, 20127 min read
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...
Jan 30, 20112 min read


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...
Dec 25, 20102 min read


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...
Dec 20, 20102 min read
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