New Planets
Since the online citizen-science project "Planet Hunters" launched in December 2011, 40,000 global web users have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars in the hopes of discovering Earth-like planets orbiting them.
Users analyze real scientific data collected by NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system--called exoplanets--since its launch in March 2009.
Now astronomers at Yale University have announced the discovery of the first two potential exoplanets discovered by Planet Hunters users in a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Publication information:
Article title: New Planets.
Contributors: Not available.
Journal title: The Science Teacher.
Volume: 78.
Issue: 8
Publication date: November 2011.
Page number: 22.
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