Kepler works by monitoring the thousands of stars in its field of view for tiny changes inbrightness.
开普勒望远镜的工作原理是监测其视野内成千上万个恒星的亮度的微小变化。
Mostly, these are natural fluctuations, but particularly sharp and regular changes mightsignify a planet passing in front of a star.
大部分情况下,这些变化都是自然波动,但是一旦有急剧变化或者规律性变动,可能是行星在恒星前经过的标志。
The raw data are sent to computers on Earth, converted into graphical form and madeavailable to the Planet Hunters.
原始数据将被传输到地球的计算机上,转化成图表,向猎星人开发。
After logging onto the project s website, its users are given a brightness graph from arandom star and asked to mark anything of interest.
猎星人在登录该项目网站后将随机获得一张亮度图表,可根据兴趣进行任何标注。
If several people flag the same star, the result is checked against the computer-derivedresults produced by the main Kepler team.
如果多人标注了同一颗恒星,将与专门处理开普勒观测数据的计算机结果比对。
Promising candidates are then checked again by ground-based telescopes.
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