Planet Hunters

Planet Hunters
Type of site
Volunteer Scientific Project
Available inEnglish
OwnerPlanet Hunters Team
Created byPlanet Hunters Team
URLwww.planethunters.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched16 December 2010;
13 years ago (2010-12-16)
Current statusOngoing

Planet Hunters is a citizen science project to find exoplanets using human eyes. It does this by having users analyze data from the NASA Kepler space telescope and the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.[1][2] It was launched by a team led by Debra Fischer at Yale University,[3] as part of the Zooniverse project.[4]

  1. ^ "What is Planet Hunters". Planet Hunters website. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :6 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Citizen Scientists Join Search for Earth-like Planets". 16 December 2010.
  4. ^ "The Zooniverse". Zooniverse website. Retrieved 9 July 2012.