by bystander » Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:07 pm
Search for New Worlds at Home with NASA’s Planet Patrol Project
NASA | GSFC | Planet Patrol | 2020 Sep 30
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Help NASA find
exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called
Planet Patrol. This
citizen science platform allows members of the public to collaborate with professional astronomers as they sort through a stockpile of star-studded images collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (
TESS).
“Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes fail to catch imposters that look like exoplanets,” said project leader Veselin Kostov, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the
SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. “The human eye is extremely good at spotting such imposters, and we need citizen scientists to help us distinguish between the look-alikes and genuine planets.”
Volunteers will help determine which TESS snapshots include signals from potential planets and which ones show planet impersonators. ...
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NASA | GSFC | Planet Patrol | 2020 Sep 30
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[float=right][c][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJLOlV_Bp4s[/youtube][size=85][b][i]Planet Patrol ~ Credit: NASA/GSFC/CI Lab[/i][/b][/size][hr][/hr][/c][/float]Help NASA find [url=https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/]exoplanets[/url], worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called [url=https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/planet-patrol/]Planet Patrol[/url]. This [url=https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience]citizen science[/url] platform allows members of the public to collaborate with professional astronomers as they sort through a stockpile of star-studded images collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ([url=https://www.nasa.gov/tess-transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite/]TESS[/url]).
“Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes fail to catch imposters that look like exoplanets,” said project leader Veselin Kostov, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the [url=https://www.seti.org/]SETI Institute[/url] in Mountain View, California. “The human eye is extremely good at spotting such imposters, and we need citizen scientists to help us distinguish between the look-alikes and genuine planets.”
Volunteers will help determine which TESS snapshots include signals from potential planets and which ones show planet impersonators. ... [/quote]