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Citizen Science and Planet Discovery

15 New Planets Hint at “Traffic Jam” of Moons in Habitable Zone “Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website, part of the Oxford University-led Zooniverse project, have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in habitable zones, where the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water, the new finds suggest that there may be […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 7, 2013
Anyone Can Now Search for Extrasolar Planets

Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets, Yale University “Planet Hunters, which is the latest in the Zooniverse citizen science project collection, will ask users to help analyze data taken by NASA’s Kepler mission. The space telescope has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system — called exoplanets — since its launch in March 2009.”

  • NASA Watch
  • December 16, 2010