New Method of Finding Planets Scores Its First Discover

"We are looking for very subtle effects. We needed high quality
measurements of stellar brightnesses, accurate to a few parts per
million," said team member David Latham of the CfA.
"This was only possible because of the exquisite data NASA is
collecting with the Kepler spacecraft," added lead author Simchon
Faigler of Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Although...