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Plant Hunters: A New Zooniverse Project

December 17, 2010 12:48 am

Centauri Dreams is reporting that the Zooniverse has grown again. There newest project lets citizen scientists to hunt for planets around other stars. So the way be too creative the site is called Planet Hunters.
You can find the Zooniverse announcement on their blog.

How Small Is Too Small To Be A Star

April 6, 2010 12:34 pm

Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Todorov and K. Luhman (Penn State University) Artwork Credit: Gemini Observatory, courtesy of L. Cook

Astronomy.com is running a story from scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory, they discovered a super small Brown dwarf and a companion planet 5 to 8 times the size of Jupiter at about the Saturn Uranus distance.