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 | Subject: Volunteers wanted for planet hunt  Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:00 pm | |
|  Time-lapsed images of a single star show dips in brightness as a planet passes - Quote :
- Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.
Volunteers can go to the Planethunters website to see time-lapsed images of 150,000 stars, taken by the Kepler space telescope.
They will be advised on the signs that indicate the presence of a planet and how to alert experts if they spot them.
"We know that people will find planets that are missed by the computer," said Chris Lintott from Oxford University.
"When humans have looked at data, we know they find planets that computers can't." full story via the bbc | |
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