Friday, April 29, 2011
Zooniverse Update
So I got bored with the Hubble Project and have moved on to a new project once again. This one is titled Planet Hunters. With this project you are presented with information from the Kepler mission which uses the transit technique to detect exoplanets: terrestrial and larger planets orbiting other stars. With this method, planets that pass in front of their host stars block out some of the starlight causing the star to dim slightly for a few hours. The Kepler spacecraft stares at a field of stars in the Cygnus constellation and records the brightness of those stars every thirty minutes to search for transiting planets. All I really have to do is to mark a square around transit features in the scatter plots.
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