Planet Hunters

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Planet Hunters (English for "planet hunters ") is a program of Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut . Volunteers can take part in the search for new celestial bodies. The project was co-founded by ETH professor Kevin Schawinski .

PH1

PH1 is the first celestial body named after this program. Two participants in the program, amateur astronomers Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano, were the first to discover PH1 in the data from the Kepler space telescope. Their observation was confirmed by researchers from the United States and Great Britain working in Hawaii . The planet has a radius 6.2 times the size of Earth. It takes PH1 138 days to orbit its two suns. The central double star and planet are orbited by another double star. The system is located about 5000 light years from Earth.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astronomical discovery: Planet PH1 has four suns . In: Stern.de of October 16, 2012, accessed on October 17, 2012
  2. ^ Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets . In: Yale News. December 16, 2010
  3. ↑ Werner Pluta: Space Telescope: Kepler discovers system with one planet and four stars . In: golem.de of October 16, 2012, accessed on October 17, 2012
  4. ↑ Megan E. Schwamb, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter and 17 other authors: Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System. In: The Astrophysical Journal. Vol. 768, No. 2, 2013, Item No. 127, doi : 10.1088 / 0004-637X / 768/2/127