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Here are a couple of the ways. Astronomers look for wobbles in the movements of stars. This may indicate that a large planet is in orbit around it. They also look for small regular variations in the brightness of stars, possibly indicating that a planet passes over the face of the star that we see, slightly reducing the amount of light we get from the star.

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