已有没有严谨研究经验的天文学爱好者帮助将哈勃望远镜观察到的星系分类。哈勃望远镜是美国宇航局主要的轨道望远镜。
They have also looked for interesting asteroids, and kept an eye out for solar storms.
业余天文学家们也已参与寻找有趣的小行星和观测太阳风暴。
The latest project to involve them, called Planet Hunters, allows amateurs to search forextrasolar planets-those that orbit stars other than the sun.
最新的 猎星人 计划号召业余爱好者们参与搜寻太阳系外行星绕除太阳外的其他恒星运行的行星。
It was set up by a group at the universities of Oxford and Yale, and links 40,000 participantswith data gathered by Kepler, another NASA space telescope that is specifically designed tohunt for planets.
此项目由哈佛大学和耶鲁大学的一个团体发起,向40000名参与者提供开普勒望远镜获取的数据。开普勒望远镜是NASA的另外一架太空望远镜,专门用于寻找行星。
On September 26th the group announced, in a paper posted to arXiv, an online database,that its participants had discovered two probable exoplanets, one a Jupiter-like gas giant, andthe other, possibly, a smaller, rocky world about twice the diameter of Earth.
该组织于9月26日在一篇发表在 arXiv上的论文里宣布,其成员发现了两颗极有可能的外部行星,一颗是与木星类似的气体巨行星,另外一颗可能是体积较小、直径约为地球两倍的岩石星体。
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