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You may be wondering how a target, one of thousands of targets in the Planet Hunters NGTS project, becomes a candidate and, hopefully, a real planet.…

Once we have identified a possible planet candidate from the NGTS data, the first thing we do is check to see if the transit signal is…

If you are confident that a transit signal is indeed coming from a particular star, you can apply for a time allocation to use the Zorro…

Last month I had the chance to observe at the Galileo National Telescope (TNG) at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La…

Great news for everyone! Our paper describing the Planet Hunters NGTS project and presenting the first five planet candidates discovered by the project has been published…

The present is the key to the past and the path to the future, so we all need to be prepared for future natural disasters.Focus on…

Iceland is volcano on steroids. Not only is it the highest peak of the longest mountain range on Earth (the Mid-Atlantic Ridge), it’s also a volcanic…

While it seems like we are still just waiting for the pandemic to end, we should prepare to accept this harsh reality for several years. Sorry,…

Today (Tuesday, September 22) is the official first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. The word fall simply means the season following summer. As far…

How do you deal with uncertainty and rapid change in your environment? You adapt, because every generation of your ancestors, going back to the beginning of…