Scientists want you to help them find planets in this database of stars

Scientists need your help to hunt for alien planets circling distant stars in the universe. 

Data about 1,600 relatively nearby stars collected over the course of 20 years by a telescope in Hawaii was just made publicly available. So now, researchers are hoping that members of the public will use their free time to comb through and find hints of planets circling those alien suns.

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“This is an amazing catalog, and we realized there just aren’t enough of us on the team to be doing as much science as could come out of this dataset,” Jennifer Burt, an MIT scientist working with the data, said in a statement.  Read more...

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