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An artist's rendition of a planet transiting in front of its star, which Planet Hunters participants may have identified. The mo

News | 09.22.2011

2 probable planets found by people like you

With the internet, it doesn’t take a Ph.D. in astrophysics to help find new worlds outside our solar system.

For the first time, new planet candidates have been identified with the help of the public’s analysis of NASA data. Anyone can join this effort, called Planet Hunters, for free and start helping real astronomers weed through data that might signal a never-before-seen planet...

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Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) Haven Leask, Yale University; (background) NASA, ESA and H.E. Bond (STScI)

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