A Citizen Science Win

With all the news coverage about “Tatooine” orbiting two stars, we were very excited to learn that in that most wretched hive of scum and villainy, the Planet Hunters Talk site, citizen scientist kianjin spotted Kepler-16! Kianjin even figured out that it must be a planet orbiting a double star.

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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,...