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posted by cmn32480 on Friday February 17 2017, @02:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the putting-crowdsourcing-to-good-use dept.

NASA is collaborating with Zooniverse to allow the public to search WISE data for "nearby" rogue planets, brown dwarfs, and Planet Nine:

NASA is inviting the public to help search for possible undiscovered worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. A new website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, lets everyone participate in the search by viewing brief movies made from images captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The movies highlight objects that have gradually moved across the sky.

"There are just over four light-years between Neptune and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, and much of this vast territory is unexplored," said lead researcher Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "Because there's so little sunlight, even large objects in that region barely shine in visible light. But by looking in the infrared, WISE may have imaged objects we otherwise would have missed."

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9.

Previously: No Evidence for 'Planet X', says NASA - "[No] object the size of Saturn or larger exists out to a distance of 10,000 astronomical units (AU), and no object larger than Jupiter exists out to 26,000 AU."
NASA's WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe
NASA's NEOWISE Mission Finds 72 Additional Near-Earth Objects
Two New Kuiper Belt Objects Boost the Case for "Planet Nine"
The Mysterious 'Planet Nine' Might be Causing the Whole Solar System to Wobble


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  • (Score: 2) by Unixnut on Friday February 17 2017, @04:42PM

    by Unixnut (5779) on Friday February 17 2017, @04:42PM (#468260)

    > You got a problem with that? Would you rather it was done with HTML forms and framesets?

    I sure would, but this varies from person to person (I am not the AC above either). HTML forms and framesets are limited in functionality to nothing more than what is needed to get the job done. JS is flexible enough to cause mayhem, but not secure or powerful enough to be performant or a good idea to run on a machine.

    Just my 0.2c.

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