Well, it might sound a bit too pretentious, but we can definitely say we have helped on finding 2 new planets outside the solar system. All thanks to the great PlanetHunters.org project.
The candidate planets had been confirmed on a recent published paper:
The publication is pretty rough, but the good guys from PlanetHunters have published a blog post explaining it. Now, how do these planets look like? We can not really offer you an image of the planets, but here are some pics from their stars.
Congratulations to all volunteers who have help science on planethunters.org. Citizen Science is proving project by project that new ways to do science are possible by engaging the general public. Now that we have found planets outside the solar system, what about doing some citizen science to help the environment on our own planet? More coming soon!
