02-16-2017, 03:31 AM
Here's another crowd sourced attempt to help astronomers, this one involves the search for objects on the distant edge of our solar system, and Planet 9.
In Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS survey uses a dedicated telescope on Haleakala to look for these orbiting bodies, while the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea performs a deeper but more highly targeted search.
How can you help?
"We need your help searching for new objects at the edges of our solar system. In this project, we'll ask you to help us distinguish real celestial objects from image artifacts in data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The real objects are brown dwarfs and low-mass stars, the Sun's nearest neighbors. You may find an object closer than Proxima Centauri (the closest star to the Sun) or even discover the Sun's hypothesized ninth planet, which models suggest might appear in these images.
Why This Search Requires Human Eyes
While it's possible to process the data to find moving points of light, we can't get rid of all the noise... These artifacts can easily fool our image processing software. But with your powerful human eyes, you can help us recognize real objects of interest that move among these artifacts."
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marc...t/research
No child will ever again doubt they could grow up and someday become president of the United States
In Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS survey uses a dedicated telescope on Haleakala to look for these orbiting bodies, while the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea performs a deeper but more highly targeted search.
How can you help?
"We need your help searching for new objects at the edges of our solar system. In this project, we'll ask you to help us distinguish real celestial objects from image artifacts in data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The real objects are brown dwarfs and low-mass stars, the Sun's nearest neighbors. You may find an object closer than Proxima Centauri (the closest star to the Sun) or even discover the Sun's hypothesized ninth planet, which models suggest might appear in these images.
Why This Search Requires Human Eyes
While it's possible to process the data to find moving points of light, we can't get rid of all the noise... These artifacts can easily fool our image processing software. But with your powerful human eyes, you can help us recognize real objects of interest that move among these artifacts."
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marc...t/research
No child will ever again doubt they could grow up and someday become president of the United States
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