Backyard Worlds

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
Type of site
Citizen science project
Available inEnglish
URLwww.backyardworlds.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
Launched15 February 2017;
7 years ago (2017-02-15)
Current statusOnline

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a NASA-funded citizen science project which is part of the Zooniverse web portal.[1] It aims to discover new brown dwarfs, faint objects that are less massive than stars, some of which might be among the nearest neighbors of the Solar System, and might conceivably detect the hypothesized Planet Nine. The project's principal investigator is Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.[2]

  1. ^ "NASA wants you to help find a new planet". CNN. 16 February 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Hunt for Planet 9: how you can help NASA search for brown dwarfs and low-mass stars". The Christian Science Monitor. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.