Planet hunters are finding more and more worlds beyond our solar system.

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The raw data are sent to computers on Earth, converted into graphical form and made available to the Planet Hunters.

ECONOMIST: Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters

The latest project to involve them, called Planet Hunters, allows amateurs to search for extrasolar planets those that orbit stars other than the sun.

ECONOMIST: Amateur astronomers join the ranks of the planet hunters

Renowned planet hunters Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler made the dramatic announcement last week that they had seen a dimming in the light coming from HD 209458 and said it was caused by a planet passing in front of the star.

BBC: We saw it too, say astronomers

What makes this result so unequivocal is that another team of planet hunters at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, have independently verified it by analysing four years of their own observations.

ECONOMIST: Planet hunting

But given the increasing ingenuity of planet-hunters, its arrival is only a matter of time.

ECONOMIST: Extrasolar planets

In my opinion anti-hunters seem to be the most ignorant of the wildlife on this planet the benifits that wildlife offer hunters and non-hunters alike.

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