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Here's a research project you can do from your laptop with a free tool built by NASA. I'll send you the step-by-step guide with every tool at the end of the video. Almost every star in the sky is planets. We just haven't found most of them yet. When a planet crosses in front of its star, the star light dips a tiny bit. NASA stores the brightness of hundreds of thousands of stars in a free database called MAST, measured every few minutes for years. Now here's what you do for your project. Open a free tool called Light Curve in your browser. Type in any star and it pulls that star's data straight from mask for you. Then it scans for a dip that repeats on a regular schedule and scores it. The stronger the repeating dip, the better your candidate, a potential undiscovered planet. This is the real first step of exoplanet discovery, from your bedroom and for free. It's obviously more complicated than this, so follow my account and comment build and I'll send you the step byby-step guide for how to do it.

Here's a research project you can do from your laptop with a free tool built by NASA. I'll send you the step-by-step guide with every tool at the end of the vi…