Planet Hunters

Planet Hunters ( English for " planet hunters " ) is a program of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Volunteers can take part in search of new celestial bodies involved .. The project was co-founded by ETH professor Kevin Schawinski.

PH1

PH1 is the first named after this program celestial bodies. Two participants of the program, the amateur astronomers Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano had discovered PH1 first in the data from the Kepler space telescope. Your observation has been confirmed by in Hawaii working scientists from the U.S. and the UK. The planet has a radius that is 6.2 times as large as the Earth. For a circumnavigation of its two suns need PH1 138 days. From two other stars, he is surrounded. The new planet is located about 5,000 light-years away from Earth.