Exploring the Cosmos through a Science Fiction Perspective.
In the vast, silent tapestry of the Kepler archive, most worlds are mere blips in a light curve—mathematical noise that come and go in a matter of seconds. But for those of us who spent countless hours staring at the raw, noisy data of the Planet Hunters project, some blips became worlds. One such world, … Continue reading Telos: A Super-Earth of Fire and Glass
It's not every night you stumble across something on the internet that is as bizarre as being officially acknowledged for helping to find an exoplanet. I enrolled with Planet Hunter years ago (around 2011), and dabbled for fun picking out images that may indicate the presence of a planet orbiting a star. The process was both challenging … Continue reading First Planet Candidates Discovered by Planet Hunters