The discovery is the result of data from four small telescopes combined with that from two of the world's largest. Scanning the sky nightly, astronomers zoomed in on this pair of stars. They discovered and measured the new planet's shadow on one of them.

"I personally think we're seeing the tip of the iceberg,” said Noyes. “There are going to be found many, many, many more giant planets, because our technology for detection them is improving, but furthermore, we may discover that Earth-like solar systems like our own are extremely common. There's no reason to doubt that now."

That led to a second announcement.

• zoom v.快速移动。迅速前往
• zoom in 拉近，推远 是画面放大（或缩小）
• iceberg 冰山

这个发现是四台小型望远镜同世界上最大两台望远镜的记录结果。通过扫描暗夜中的天空，科学家放大这对双星系统的画面，在其中一颗行星上发现并测量了新行星的影子。我个人认为我们如今只观测到冰山一角。Noyes说，我们还会发现更多，更多的巨大的行星，因为我们探测技术在不断的改进。更进一步说，我们发现像我们这样的类地球太阳系的可能性也是普遍存在的。现在我们并没有理由怀疑这一点。这将导致下一个公告。

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