Amateur astronomers joined in the project Planet Hunter managed to find 42 candidate planets where 15 of them are kanidat planets in the habitable zone.

Haven Giguere

The view of the moon planet PH2 b

Amateur astronomers joined in the project Planet Hunter managed to find 42 candidate planets where 15 of them are kanidat planets in the habitable zone.



"The planets are good candidates eluding a professional astronomer, but can be saved by volunteers in front of their web browser dar.'s Amazing that anyone could find a planet," said Chris Lintottt of Zooniverse, program supervisor Planet Hunter.

One planet found named PH2 b. The planet was found by analyzing data from the Kepler space telescope. The existence of the planet is finally also been dikonfrmasi by observations at the Keck Observatory, Hawaii.

PH2 is a Jupiter-sized planet, too big to support life. However, the moons around the planet may be habitable. The temperature of the atmosphere of the planet ranges from 30 degrees to -88 degrees Celsius.

"New moon orbiting Jupiter-sized planets may be habitable," said Ji Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University who became head of the writing nasakah research results will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Month will be equal to that described in the movie Avatar, there is a habitable moon Pandora surrounding giant gas planet Polyphemus.

PH2 found with the transit technique, see the flickering starlight when a planet passes in front of it. The sukrelawan given access to the data Kepler telescope. The most powerful of the planet candidates found will be examined by a professional astronomer.

Reported Space, Saturday (01/12/2013), so far, the project Planet Hunter has found 48 candidate planets. The first planet that has been confirmed is PH1.