{"id":5954,"date":"2014-01-07T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:30:34","slug":"video-overview-of-planet-hunters-citizen-science-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"Video: Overview of Planet Hunters citizen science program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Schwamb of the citizen science program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a>\u00a0posts a video of a rehearsal of the talk she gave at the <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.org\/meetings\/223rd-aas-meeting-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\">American Astronomical Society conference<\/a> underway in Washington DC this week:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2014\/01\/07\/aas-talk-planet-hunters-kepler-by-eye\/\" target=\"_d\">AAS Talk \u2013 Planet Hunters: Kepler by Eye &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ic_ZlHIYv8M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Schwamb of the citizen science program Planet Hunters\u00a0posts a video of a rehearsal of the talk she gave at the American Astronomical Society conference underway in Washington DC this week:\u00a0AAS Talk \u2013 Planet Hunters: Kepler by Eye &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/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-5954","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-1y2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5726,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5726","url_meta":{"origin":5954,"position":0},"title":"Planet Hunters &#8211; 3 years of citizen scientist exoplanet searches &#038; discoveries","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The citizen science Planet Hunters\u00a0program celebrates three years of searching and (occasionally) finding exoplanets:\u00a03 Years of Hunting Planets - 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. 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