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If you ve always wanted to discover a planet for your very own, now s your chance. Researchers are calling on the public for help in identifying exoplanets – planets orbiting stars outside of our own Solar System.
It perhaps is a dream of all of us to find a new planet or a star. If the discovery is vital enough, they even may give the planet our name. But not all of us have the scientific know-how to actually do that and all we can do is dream.
But now in our connected world, anything is possible. And if you really want to help scientists discover a new planet, all you need is a web browser and the internet.
The mission is to observe changes in brightness of stars. If a planet comes between us and the star, the star may dim in a certain way indicating presence of the planet.
London: Queen's University Belfast has called on armchair astronomers to help in a search for extra solar planets.The online citizen project is enlisting the help of the public to examine five years' worth of digital footage showing some of the brightest stars in the sky.The footage was captured by 12 Planet Hunters Next-Generation Transit Search (NGTS).