starlight to help astronomers discover new exoplanets

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THIS month I am escaping from Earth and joining astronomers in their search for undiscovered worlds

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You can too, by participating in the Planet Hunters TESS project online.

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You will be asked to flick through observations from NASA’s

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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and look out for signs of worlds

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Each time one of these exoplanets passes in front of its parent star a process known as transiting

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The dimming that occurs during a planet’s transit can be detected by the satellite

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A process known as transiting it blocks out a small amount of the star’s light.

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