{"id":5726,"date":"2013-12-16T06:19:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2013-12-16T06:19:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T06:19:49","slug":"planet-hunters-3-years-of-citizen-scientist-exoplanet-searches-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5726","title":{"rendered":"Planet Hunters &#8211; 3 years of citizen scientist exoplanet searches &#038; discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The citizen science <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a>\u00a0program celebrates three years of searching and (occasionally) finding exoplanets:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2013\/12\/16\/3-years-of-hunting-planets\/\" target=\"_d\">3 Years of Hunting Planets &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three years ago we weren\u2019t sure if would even find planets, today we have lots of candidates and even some confirmed planets of our very own. Here\u2019s a poster to celebrate: the Planet Hunters avatar made up of the almost-200,000 names of our registered users.\u00a0Happy Birthday everyone!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ph-3-year-poster-1000\" src=\"http:\/\/planethunters.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/ph-3-year-poster-1000.jpg?w=479&amp;h=479\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Download\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zooniverse-resources.s3.amazonaws.com\/bigblogfiles\/ph-3-year-poster-7000.jpg\">Fullsize [46 MB]<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/zooniverse-resources.s3.amazonaws.com\/bigblogfiles\/ph-3-year-poster-3500.jpg\">Half-size [11 MB]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The citizen science Planet Hunters\u00a0program celebrates three years of searching and (occasionally) finding exoplanets:\u00a03 Years of Hunting Planets &#8211; Planet Hunters Three years ago we weren\u2019t sure if would even find planets, today we have lots of candidates and even some confirmed planets of our very own. Here\u2019s a poster to celebrate: the Planet Hunters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planet Hunters &#8211; 3 years of citizen scientist exoplanet searches &#038; discoveries<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exoplanets","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1um","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8239,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8239","url_meta":{"origin":5726,"position":0},"title":"Planet Hunters citizen science paper reports on 14 new planet candidates","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Another paper based on analysis done by citizen scientist contributors to the\u00a0Planet Hunters\u00a0program has been accepted by a scientific journal:\u00a0Latest Science Paper Accepted for Publication: The First Kepler Seven Planet Candidate System and 13 Other Planet Candidates from the Kepler Archival Data -\u00a0Planet Hunters We at Planet Hunters are happy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5253,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5253","url_meta":{"origin":5726,"position":1},"title":"Planet Hunters pass 20M classifications","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Planet Hunters\u00a0citizen science program hits a large numeric milestone:\u00a020 million classifications and counting! - Planet Hunters \u00a0 Planet Hunters has just crossed the 20 million classification mark, a milestone to be celebrated! Thinking back to this time three years ago, the\u00a0 the Zooniverse development team and\u00a0Planet Hunters science team\u00a0 were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2256,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2256","url_meta":{"origin":5726,"position":2},"title":"Planet Hunter citizen scientists confirmed exoplanet in star&#8217;s habitable zone","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this year participants in the\u00a0Planet Hunters citizen science project confirmed with 99.9 percent confidence the discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet called PH2b orbiting within the \u201chabitable zone\u201d of its star, the range where earth-like planets could have liquid water and possibly sustain life. 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