HAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0901.0282/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTHAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field — mentioned by bfehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8366156urn:hackerpapers:mention:0901.0282:8366156Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:14:10 GMT<p>Progress on all fronts is driving the progress in exoplanets. The Kepler space telescope has been a huge driver, and Hubble, Spitzer, and big ground-based telescopes have played a big role; this new discovery is based on Hubble and Spitzer data runs plus comparison with Kepler data. Exoplanet search will take a giant leap with the planned launch of the TESS space telescope in 2017. But this exoplanet was first discovered by a small network of at the time 6 extremely modest telescopes (just 110mm / ~4.3 inch objective diameter) automatically controlled by one Linux box in a project built by…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0901.0282/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.EP