News tagged with planet hunters
Cosmic voyager has a layover in St. Louis
Last January two amateur meteorite hunters dropped by Randy Korotev's office at Washington University in St. Louis to show him their latest purchase, a 17-kilogram pallasite meteorite found in 2006 near Conception ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2011 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
From the comfort of home, Web users may have found new planets
Since the online citizen science project Planet Hunters launched last December, 40,000 web users from around the world have been helping professional astronomers analyze the light from 150,000 stars in the ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
5 / 5 (4) |
2
|
How to learn a star's true age
(PhysOrg.com) -- For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. In space, the same is true of the actual stars. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we ...
May 24, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
7
|
Citizen scientists join search for Earth-like planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2010 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
1
New planet discoveries suggest low-mass planets are common around nearby stars (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of planet hunters has discovered as many as six low-mass planets around two nearby Sun-like stars, including two "super-Earths" with masses 5 and 7.5 times the mass of ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (20) |
14
