Astronomers using old Hubble Space Telescope data have already found a couple of exoplanets. Now, they are going to take a more systematic approach to mining HST archival data in hopes of finding more.
The new effort will focus on 350 nearby stars. Using the data, researchers have found planets in orbit around a star 130 light years distant. If any further possible exoplanets are found in the ten years of data available, they can be checked by leading observatories using techniques not yet developed when the HST images were originally taken.
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