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Backyard Worlds Volunteers Complete Ten Million Classifications in an Epic Search for New Objects Among the Nearest Stars<\/h2>\n

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Backyard Worlds Volunteers Complete Ten Million Classifications in an Epic Search for New Objects Among the Nearest Stars<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A few Backyard Worlds volunteers. Credit: Backyard Worlds
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Top (l-r): Arttu Sainio,\u00a0Frank Kiwy,\u00a0 Jean Marc Gantier, Marianne Michaels,\u00a0 Les Hamlet, Melina Th\u00e9venot,\u00a0
2nd row (l-r): Kevin Apps, Nikolaj Stevnbak Andersen, Rebekah Russwurm, J\u00f6rg Sch\u00fcmann, Guoyou Sun, Tom Bickle
3rd row (l-r): Michiharu Hyogo, Katharina Doll,\u00a0Hugo Durantini-Luca, Yadukrishna Raghu, Hiro Higashimura,
4th row (l-r): Ben Pumphrey, Zbigniew Wedracki, Guillaume Colin, Anya Frazer, Dan Caselden
4th row (l-r): Kristin Grant, Maurizio Ventura, Harshdeep Singh, Celso Pessanha Machado,\u00a0Austin Rothermich
6th row (l-r): Edoardo Antonini,\u00a0\u00a0Peter Jalowiczor,\u00a0Leopold Gramaize, Hunter Brooks, William Pendrill<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The\u00a0Backyard Worlds: Planet 9<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors<\/a>\u00a0projects invite members of the public to search images from NASA\u2019s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission to find new objects among the nearest stars. These projects share a science team and many volunteers\u2013a total of more than 175,000 participants from more than 167 countries. Last week, the combined efforts of this giant Backyard Worlds team reached an incredible milestone: a total of 10,000,000 classifications of WISE mission image sets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since 2017, when the first Backyard Worlds project (Planet 9) launched, these projects have discovered more than 3800 nearby objects, including 12% of all the known stellar and substellar objects out to a distance of 60 light years. Those objects include many rare brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are not massive enough to become stars. Among them are roughly 15 Y dwarfs\u2013the rarest kind of brown dwarf (only about 50 are known). The discoveries also include an entirely new kind of object, the \u201cextreme T subdwarfs,\u201d relics from our Galaxy\u2019s earliest days.<\/p>\n

This work has resulted in 20 refereed publications, with more than 40 volunteers named as co-authors on those refereed publications. It has also led to 11 research notes and 25 presentations at meetings of the American Astronomical Society. Several project volunteers have participated in observing runs at NASA\u2019s Infrared Telescope Facility and even won time on NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Best of all, there\u2019s much more data to explore, and the WISE mission continues to scan the skies! So come join the fun and make your own discoveries at\u00a0backyardworlds.org<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0coolneighbors.org<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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