天文学家推断系外行星存在的手段有好几种，美国宇航局的开普勒项目使用的是凌日法。
While there are a number of different ways that astronomers infer the existence of exoplanets, NASA's Kepler mission USES what's known as the transit method.
“开普勒”小组首先根据凌日法获得地外行星的讯息，然后由开普勒望远镜和其他太空望远镜(包括运行在轨道上的和地球上的)对行星做进一步的观测，最后才将它确定为候选行星。
Kepler identifies these slight changes in starlight as candidate planets, which are then confirmed by further observations by Kepler and other telescopes in orbit and on Earth.
相比以前所使用的一些根据恒星重力引起的震动来探测行星的方法，凌日探测法可以发现体积小很多的行星。
Transit detection can pick up much smaller planets than previous methods based on gravity-induced wobbles in the stellar parent.
相比以前所使用的一些根据恒星重力引起的震动来探测行星的方法，凌日探测法可以发现体积小很多的行星。
Transit detection can pick up much smaller planets than previous methods based on gravity-induced wobbles in the stellar parent.
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