Stargazing Live viewers find four-planet solar system via crowd-sourcing project
7 years, 11 months ago

Stargazing Live viewers find four-planet solar system via crowd-sourcing project

ABC  

Australian volunteer citizen scientists have found four previously unknown planets orbiting a nearby star thanks to a crowd-sourcing project aired on the ABC's Stargazing Live. The four "Super Earth" planets are about double the size of Earth and are orbiting a star in the Aquarius constellation 600 light years away, said Dr Chris Lintott, the principal investigator of Zooniverse. The Exoplanet Explorers project is the first time citizen scientists have been able to collaborate and classify "fresh" data from Kepler, as opposed to other projects that use archival data, Dr Lintott said. " came down from Kepler via NASA's deep space network in Canberra just a few weeks ago, and so this is almost real-time intervention," Dr Lintott said.

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Nasa creates history with discovery of 6 new planets outside Solar System
8 months, 1 week ago

Nasa creates history with discovery of 6 new planets outside Solar System

India Today  

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Astronomers discover new six-planet system
1 year, 4 months ago

Astronomers discover new six-planet system

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. This discovery is going to become a benchmark system to study how sub-Neptunes, the most common type …

Yet another solar system with 8 planets discovered by NASA's AI
7 years, 3 months ago

Yet another solar system with 8 planets discovered by NASA's AI

India Today  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday, December 14, announced that "our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth." Our @NASAKepler mission's search for new planets teamed with machine learning to discover another solar …

Stargazing Live: The Top End mechanic who found a four-planet solar system
7 years, 11 months ago

Stargazing Live: The Top End mechanic who found a four-planet solar system

ABC  

From his quiet corner inside a steamy Darwin workshop Andrew Grey has repaired hundreds of cars, but his discovery of four previously unknown planets has changed his world forever. From there, classic sci-fi movies like Star Trek sparked an interested in the mysteries of the universe, but he never thought that he would one day have his discoveries published alongside …

Alien solar system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby dwarf star could be rich with water and life
8 years, 1 month ago

Alien solar system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby dwarf star could be rich with water and life

ABC  

Seven Earth-sized planets, many of which could harbour life, have been discovered orbiting a dwarf star in our own galactic neighbourhood. Key points: System of seven planets orbiting a dwarf star 40-light years away contains the most Earth-sized planets ever seen The inner six of these planets are rocky like Earth Three or more could harbour oceans of water on …

Three planets discovered orbiting nearby cool small star 'best places to look for life'
8 years, 10 months ago

Three planets discovered orbiting nearby cool small star 'best places to look for life'

ABC  

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BBC Stargazing Live Discovers New Martian Terrain
12 years, 2 months ago

BBC Stargazing Live Discovers New Martian Terrain

Wired  

Last week saw the third annual broadcast of BBC Stargazing Live. Willing viewers who visited the Stargazing Live website were taught how to find exoplanets in data sets provided by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. Viewers of Stargazing Live 2012 discovered a new planet during the show's three broadcast days; it was named* Threapleton Holmes B after the two viewers who …

'Armchair astronomers' discover planet with four suns
12 years, 5 months ago

'Armchair astronomers' discover planet with four suns

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A planet with four suns has been identified by two “armchair …

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