The planets were discovered by the transit method, which detects potential planets as their orbits cross in front of their star and cause a very tiny but periodic dimming of the star's brightness. (sciencedaily.com)
NASA and Google have been working together to spot new potential planets in vast reams of data from the Kepler telescope, but now they've announced that both the Kepler data and Google's high - tech algorithm are available for anyone to use. (outerplaces.com)
This has major consequences for potential planet formation.» (alma-telescope.jp)