{"id":79544,"date":"2020-10-01T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasas-planet-patrol-project\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T14:31:53","slug":"search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasas-planet-patrol-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasas-planet-patrol-project\/","title":{"rendered":"#Search for new worlds at home with NASA’s Planet Patrol project"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Search for new worlds at home with NASA’s Planet Patrol project<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol<\/a>. This citizen science<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n


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“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.”<\/p>\n

Volunteers will help determine which TESS snapshots include signals from potential planets and which ones show planet impersonators.<\/p>\n

TESS uses its four cameras to take full images of one patch of sky, called a sector, every 10 minutes for a month at a time. This long stare allows TESS to see when planets pass in front of their stars, or transit, and dim their light. Over the course of a year, TESS collects hundreds of thousands of snapshots, each containing thousands of possible planets\u2014too many for scientists to examine without help.<\/p>\n

Computers are very good at analyzing such data sets, but they’re not perfect, Kostov said. Even the most carefully crafted algorithms can fail when the signal from a planet is weak. Some of the most interesting exoplanets, like small worlds with long orbits, can be especially challenging. Planet Patrol volunteers will help discover such worlds and will contribute to scientists’ understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve throughout the universe.<\/p>\n


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