As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter.
As of October 24, 2023, scientists have confirmed the existence of 5,535 planets outside of our solar system. In some ways that discovery belongs to all of us because we are part of this universe. The hunt for exoplanets allows all of us to be scientists. That’s certainly a nice sentiment, but when it comes to exoplanets, it’s actually true: Citizen scientists are working every day alongside those with PhDs to find the next exoplanet. One of the many people we have to thank for that is Dr.
or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is a spacecraft that monitors over 200,000 stars for dips in brightness. This is one of the simplest ways to find exoplanets–when a planet travels in front of its host star as seen from Earth, there’s a measurable dip in that star’s brightness. But TESS only identifies exoplanet candidates. These candidates have to be independently confirmed by humans. PlanetHunters.org makes light curves from TESS available to the public.
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