I'd like to submit the artist's rendition for the discovery of a circumbinary planet (dubbed "PH1") in a four-star system by
Planet Hunters. Planet Hunters is a citizen science project enlisting the general public to inspect the publicly released Kepler dataset for extrasolar planets. PH1 is the first confirmed planet for the Planet Hunters project and is the first planet to be found in a four-star system. The planet was discovered by Planet Hunters' volunteers Robert Gagliano and Kian Jek and followed-up and confirmed by a Yale-led team of astronomers.

Image Credit: Haven Giguere/Yale
A family portrait of the PH1 planetary system: The newly discovered planet is depicted in this artist’s rendition transiting the larger of the two eclipsing stars it orbits. Off in the distance, well beyond the planet orbit, at ~1000 AU resides a second pair of stars bound to the planetary system. (Image by Haven Giguere/Yale)
A larger version >400K version can be found
here.
The paper announcing the discovery has been submitted to Astronomical Journal and can be found in preprint form
here.
We have also have a blog post on the Planet Hunters website announcing the discovery which can be found
here
I'm project scientist for Planet Hunters and lead author of the paper. I have permission to post the image and submit it to APOD.
Cheers,
~Meg Schwamb
megan.schwamb@yale.edu
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=29772
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=22312