the_zooniverse

Unfortunately not. It was a case convergent design. In fact, to his eternal shame, Chris has never seen an episode! He's never been to the crunch. [Grant]

We're pretty proud of the planets that we've discovered through Planet Hunters - we just announced the first discovery of a transiting seven planet system - and of them Planet Hunters 1b is probably the most exciting. It's the first (and so far only) planet known in a four-star system; two pairs of stars orbiting each other, with a planet orbiting one of the pairs. Astronomers on such a planet are likely to be confused. (Actually, they'll be upset by the lack of a solid surface but they'll be confused as they sink to their inevitable doom) [Chris]

Of course there's also the discovery of "Hanny's Voorwerp" - a one in a million galaxy found in the first set of Galaxy Zoo images. It's exciting as it reveals we have caught a supermassive black hole just after its stopped gobbling up material in the centre of its galaxy. It was first noticed by a Dutch school teacher called Hanny, and has been looked at by the Hubble Space Telescope. [Karen]

I like the discovery from our most recent project Plankton Portal that shows the first known case of a type of jellyfish (liriope) eating an arrow-worm [Grant] http://daily.zooniverse.org/2013/10/19/plankton-portal-update/

I'm partial to the Green Peas -- a class of compact galaxies that are so busy forming so many stars that they turn bright green due to intense emission by oxygen atoms at one particular wavelength. They seem to be similar to what we think happened in galaxies in the very early universe, and they were discovered by citizen scientists.

That being said, I think the biggest discovery so far is Hanny's Voorwerp -- it's the discovery that launched all our other discoveries. [Brooke]