At the time, asteroseismologists had to measure those pulses from Earth.

当时，星震学家不得不测量来自地球的这些脉冲。

Help (and lots of data) for asteroseismologists is flooding in from an allied branch of astronomy—the hunt for exoplanets.

对星震学家的帮助（和大量数据）正从天文学的一个相关分支——寻找系外行星——涌入。

The data these missions have gathered has been a gold mine for asteroseismologists, who have used it to examine hundreds of Sun-like stars and several thousand red giants.

这些任务收集的数据对星震学家来说是一座金矿，他们用这些数据检查了数百颗类太阳恒星和数千颗红巨星。