2 probable planets found by people like you
With the internet, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. in astrophysics to help find new worlds outside our solar system.
For the first time, new planet candidates have been identified with the help of the public’s analysis of NASA data. Anyone can join this effort, called Planet Hunters, for free and start helping real astronomers weed through data that might signal a never-before-seen planet.
Computer algorithms that the pros use do the job of sorting through data from deep space with precision and speed, but sometimes humans can do it better.
“A lot of times, we don’t know to anticipate in advance something unusual in the data. And so that’s clearly where the Planet Hunters, the public, [have] been coming in,” said Debra Fischer, professor of astronomy at Yale University and co-founder of Planet Hunters.
So far, there are about 40,000 users of Planet Hunters across the U.S. and about 90 other countries. It’s intuitive and simple enough that even a child could use it. Teachers are already using it in the classroom, Fischer said.
“It’s a perfect opportunity for even children to become involved, and to really learn what the scientific process is, what the scientific method is, and that thrill of discovery at an age where they still have the opportunity to make decisions about their future” said Natalie Batalha, co-investigator for NASA's Kepler mission, which has discovered more than 1,200 candidate planets so far.
All you have to do is sign up with Planet Hunters and start answering questions about graphs, which represent data about light from distant stars. The website guides you through what to look for – the dips and v-shapes corresponding to a dimming of light may mean a planet has transited, or passed in front of a star during a certain time period.
In the first test batch of data, users had classified about 3,500 transits. Fischer enlisted undergraduates to help look at every single one of them, passing the best ones on to the graduate students who would pass them to the rest of the team, and they boiled down the list to 40 that looked the most like the signatures of planets. Of the 10 that they sent to the Kepler group, two turned out to be good candidates for planets.
One is a “super Earth” with a radius about twice that of our planet. Without knowing its mass, scientists can’t say anything about its composition. The other is a Saturn-sized object, Fischer said.
Computer algorithms had seen both of these celestial objects, but had misclassified them.
Planet Hunters had also identified the recently-announced planet nicknamed Tatooine, the first planet confirmed to orbit two stars at once. The citizen science effort helped find it four months ago, independent of the NASA Kepler team.
The Kepler team had actually published a catalog of possible eclipsing binary systems in March, so technically the pros were still first. But Batalha says it’s not such a cut-throat competition.
“It doesn’t matter who was first,” Batalha said. “Those discoveries were being made, and that process – going through that process and experiencing that thrill – that’s what’s important.”
The Planet Hunters expert team, a collaboration between astronomers at Yale, the University of Oxford and the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, just sent the next top 10 over the Kepler, and it looks like seven may hold up as candidate planets, Fischer said.
Scientists have confirmed the existence of more than 680 planets outside of our solar system, according to NASA's PlanetQuest website. In order to be more certain about the two new candidates from the Planet Hunters, scientists need to use a method called Doppler spectroscopy, a method of measuring the mass of these objects.
Stars with planets appear to wobble toward and away from the observer - meaning a change in radial velocity - and this effect is larger when the planet is either bigger or closer to the star. Measuring light from the nearby star and its radial velocity helps scientists determine whether an object is indeed a planet, as well as how dense it is.
Fischer is fairly confident that the two new candidates spotted by Planet Hunters are “bona-fide” planets.
“There are 4 million classifications, and out of that came two planets so far. There will be there more, but still, it gives you some sense of the scale of the problem." Fischer said. "It’s a lottery ticket, I guess."
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Planet Dygan-09. Whole thing smells like a peeeld, boiled egg. In fact, the surface looks like it, too. Except the kind of egg where it's been sitting in the water too long, and when you remove the shell, you get bits and pieces of the white, too. It's a pockmarked planet. Covered in snow, ice, and that pervasive fart smell.The natives are not natives at all, but human colonists. Mostly descended from smugglers, a group of whom were deposited unceremoniously some two-hundred years ago. There's enough small game, mostly white mole-rats that tunnel underground and taste a little worse than boiled leather, as well as soft moss. Not surprisingly, the planet has very little in the way of culinary tradition.
"by people like you"... Yeah, we're amateur astronomers...this is what we do. Lots of things are found by us. Hate to make it sound easy, but it is. Just simple observation.
wow!!!
i'm bored
They found the DEATH STAR.
It searches for blue planets to suck the water out of, then it discards the waste as 1 meter sized chunks of debris.
HA!
Earth is #1!
How can they label a planet as being "Earth like" if they don't know its composition? Instead of being "Earlth like", IMHO, without any confirmed info on its composition, it could just as well be "Mars like", "Venus like", "Mercury like", or even "Pluto like".
When they label a planet as being "Earth like", they are painting a picture of a planet with an N and O2 atmosphere, and liquid water oceans, and dry land masses.
Yes, but it's round! So maybe that accounts for something.
They are referring to the size and distance from the sun.
hey
the planet has not really been discovered yet
No, you have it all wrong, science IS child's play for a specific task, and I'm a scientist. Anybody with proper training can do "science"
People that are very intelligent develop models but in reality. Science would benefit greatly from these sort of things like crowd source...in fact, if more people donated their computer time when not used, and played games like the protein folding and used the program to hunt for planets, we'd probably accelerate discoveries eveyr year by a factor of 20 because the amount of data would increase exponentially...we wouldn't even need more scientists, just enough for modeling, then computers, and the people doing the work.
We could have a scientific revolution.
So in other words, not anyone can develop the "frame" or design the game by which there is a common "language" or "format" so everyone can compare notes based on the format, that's where you need a scientist.
But anybody that tells you this work is "child's play" in science has more of an interest in his ego than the science.
Sorry, it is child's play, the distinction is in saying that this particular work is more of child's play than other science. That's incorrect. Once you are properly trained in one task and get the hang of it, no college degree necessary in orther words, it becomes as easy as playing a video game. In fact, it's often far more repetitive and boring.
I agree anyone can collect data and say 'Here!" With space being as large as it is an extra pair of eyes looking upward is huge. Also many hands make light work. I would really love to see more people get involved and jump start this scientific revolution. COME PEOPLE I want to visit Mars within my lifetime!
The only way "people like me" would discover a planet is if it was on a woman's chest. A much better view than the sky.
well, i guess i'm probably out of synch with evoneyre else and so just to prove it a little more than you don't know what i'm talking about, here come a few blips from TERROR PLANET 666666.666666an cliche evil forboding hums on anyones deepspace sonar (sonar? radar? what century are we in man, the five hundred and sixth century!) telling anyone so foolish as to approach that here is a blasted space, filled with the remnants from a thousand dead religions and their thousand forked tongue/multi-horned/leaking eyes devils and demons. billions of now out-of-work evil spirits, their former religions blown away by the all-reaching ever knowing gods of the new truth. devils, demons, satans methusalahs and all their kind slowly found themselves to be without terror, former priests and worshippers had abandoned their old faiths and old gods, and with them went their evils, all to terror planet 666. if you want to feel guilty, set a time-warper-drive to their radar sonar sector and pray the new truth doesn't skin you alive.cower with fear all you faithless!
The sun is literary freezing, more and more sunspots appear year over year.
Sunspots occur in 11 year cycles and have done so for as long as mankind was able to observe them.
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Somewhere in the multiverse I actually rule these planets
"Arblus, look! It's Unicron!"
What a wonderful discovery, I think that is wonderful. Now my only regret is that I will not live long enough to ever see another planet..
nice, it's good to see that people are engaging in bettering the human race, rather than chowing down on corndogs with michelle bachman
U mean sarah palinut
Wow...super surprised on how ignorant and close minded still are...to the racist people, do us all a favor and eliminate yourself from society in someway, that would do us all a favor and maybe we'd live in a better world.
I am happy with this discovery. So I say: One day all the globe will be one unit with one flag. All peoples will be in great union under Super High Government. They will need to invade the space to extend the life there. As a start the need to be able to live in Venus and Mars. Then they can get over the vast distances in Space. Amen
You be nuts man. We are all going to get into a mega nuclear war over the last remaining dribs of oil in the 2060s and mankind will be toast.
you sir are an idiot, we will not go that far unless something bad happens like in ww2
I hope of any one who wants to comment to be polite. Don't use such words as idiot or nut. We are not in a bar. We are in the alter of science. Don't you see that the globe is like a small town? If you don't feel affection to the people in Japan or in Somalia you are not a human being.
All planets,suns, moons are atoms comprising god. I if you could travel trillions of miles away from the heavenly glaxies, you will began to see the figure of god. Appearently earth,one of the atoms, is situated near the anus.
One day before 30 years this idea came to my mind. Later I knew that God is above all figuration. All what we say about him returns to embody in our world.
Hi,guys
To all respected personel of the NASA and all the staff in the NASA gov. all ter Planet Hunter its a gift. knowledge is
the secret that given to us.according to Generation, the star that made 1st [] are Orion, and the Pleiades,constellation of star. ask[] ex.// can we bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of the Orion? can we clear this for the [] hunter ,good luck to everyone keep moving,,,,thanks to the Department of navy and Marines and all the reserve 0800 ..God bless us,,,
Need more analysis,thanks NASA for data
And neither of them were Niburu or Planet X. : D
We're all gonna live!
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look guys, these are just 2 planets. we would prolly be dead before steping on another planet anyways.lol maybe other life out there would come here to have a cup of coffee...
None of us might ever set foot on another planet but, if there is intelligent life; we may be able to communicate. It might take a few years to send a message back and forth but, it can definitely be done. 😉
If I find a planet, it is mine. Finders keepers.
It's spelled Lrrr. His wife's name is Ndnd. They don't have vowels on Omicron Persei 8.
I will destroy you!
Lots of vowels in the name of a planet that has no vowels.
I find a new planet and its perfect for the teabagger, I call it planet douchebag. It be wonderful for them there, they will love it.
Only two Planets? There must be some more ...
this is what happens when you make a facebook page for NASA, you get all these retarded children posting crap
get your heads uot of our uranus and help this country get out the mess were in
When properly pronounced "urinus" the joke isn't funny. It's not "your anus"...when you say it wrong you sound dumb.
the planet is goin to be gone by 2012 our government is terrible
you guys dont no anything the planets going to blow up in 2012
you really dont buy that 2012 crap do you its just gonna be like y2k was and when that day finally arrives BAM and nothing.
I like your thinking. Lets have sexual contact now. please.
"its just gonna be like y2k was and when that day finally arrives BAM and nothing."
I agree with 2012 being nonsense but dont diss the hard work us computer professionals put in to make sure Y2K did go off with little going wrong.
Since they found a super planet theythe govt should put all white people on on the new fresh planeta and leave black people on earth.
Really, how about this, let take all the white male to that new planet and leave all white female for us. Sound a good plan to u.
Yea that might work
We can just leave you the fat ugly white chicks that y'all like to date.
Seriously.. Is the world ONLY black and white to you? Did you forget the MANY other ethnicities there are on this planet?
I don't think you're playing along with the joke
Yup, works for africa. (sarcasm)
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You sound like an automatic-reply bot.
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why isn't people not replying to my comments?
Jeez man....get a life.
why don't you!!!!!
Um, you're the one spamming the article with useless information.
"why isn't people not replying to my comments?"?????? isn't not??? Try learning to articulate your thoughts in a manner an educated person might understant!
expert I hope you were not talking about me?
poeple are just too quiet!!!!
o.o
what?
people like you??? racist much???
who are you talking to?
You aren't a person?
"Help real astronomers"? They are just regular people with bigger toys.
And collage degrees.
why isn't anybody saying anything?
you suck
what? You suck
what kind of reply is that?!
Mcool, go out tonight and see if you can find Uranus....
i couldn't find it
Must be a new idea to reduce the government work force, get people to do work for free.
Bill I agree with what you just said
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How do you know this knid of information?
someone please say something
Give it about another hour, mcool123. People on the west coast are just getting into work. They'll all get their coffees and what nots, sit at their desk, realize they don't wanna start work, and they'll start trolling the boards.
This is a cool project. I've done several hours. I feel better about killing time with this than with Angry Birds!!
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You don't want people like me finding planets, believe me, you don't.
Kind of like that TV show Antiques Roadshow. Here we see a whole 30-minute show of people who had things worth big bucks just sitting around up in their attics. Nevermind the fact that those clips were cherrypicked from thousands of nothings.
The obvious analogy is that here we are told of two people that found something significant. Compared to how many that never did and never will find anything?
Hey, if you got the time to type text on a forum, you can also help science. Either way you earn no money, but the second method helps you get past St. Peter.
Nah, not two people... the images are part of a database- likely that hundreds of people marked the image as unique, necessitating a second look.
Cool.
I found a planet in my pants, but NASA won't return my calls.
More like a dwarf planet.
Dwarf planets are planets too, in spite of the ridiculous resolution by four percent of the IAU.
Sure that wasn't a dwarf planet?
you got some crazy ideas!!!!!
lol i agree
mcool123... such a n00b!!
that's what you are
no planet. just a black hole that never sees light.
If 9000 people join this organization I will scream "ITS OVER 9000!!!!!"