Happy 1st Birthday Comet Hunters!

Image credit Will Clayton – flikr

Today marks one full year of Comet Hunters. It’s amazing how time flies while you’re having fun and exploring the Solar System! Thank you for all of your time and  contributions. We really appreciate it. We couldn’t do this without the Comet Hunters volunteer community.

Over this year, the science team has been developing the analysis pipeline to combine the multiple classifications of each subject together. We’ve also reviewed possible comet candidates and also  launched the Hyper Suprime-Cam search. In Year 2, we’ll work towards  the project’s first science papers. I’ll be marking Comet Hunters’ birthday by sitting down in a coffee shop and writing some text about how the Comet Hunters website works for the start of our first science paper draft. Stay tuned to this space in the future for more paper and progress updates.

Help celebrate Comet Hunters’ first birthday by classifying an image or two at http://www.comethunters.org