{"id":1456,"date":"2017-06-12T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2017-07-12T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T08:55:51","slug":"planet-9-the-digital-flipbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/planet-9-the-digital-flipbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Worlds: Planet 9- The Digital Flipbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong><u>Context<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cold new world near solar system found by scientists<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><u>Backyard Worlds: Planet 9- The Digital Flipbook<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a free online project that lets anyone browse through images by NASA\u2019s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft.<\/li>\n<li>It is a part of Zooniverse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Zooniverse is a citizen science web portal owned and operated by the Citizen Science Alliance.<\/li>\n<li>It has headquarters at Oxford University and the Adler Planetarium.<\/li>\n<li>The Zooniverse hosts a number of projects from fields of astronomy, ecology, cell biology, humanities, and climate science.<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Backyard Worlds was launched in February 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Few days after the launch of Backyard Worlds website, Bob Fletcher an Australian, identified a very faint object moving across the WISE images.<\/li>\n<li>This object came to be known as \u201cBob\u2019s Dwarf\u201d. Studies revealed that it was a brown dwarf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>What is Brown Dwarf?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brown dwarfs are objects which have a size between that of a giant planet like Jupiter and that of a small star.<\/li>\n<li>The mass of the brown dwarfs, according to many scientists range from 15 times the mass of Jupiter to 75 times the mass of Jupiter.<\/li>\n<li>Given that range of masses, the object would not have been able to sustain the fusion of hydrogen like a regular star; and hence are often termed by scientists as \u201c failed stars\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Brown dwarfs spread all across the Milky Way and is useful in studying the atmosphere of other worlds because of their striking similarity with Jupiter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><u>Significance of the Backyard World\u2019s Project<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project would help to map our celestial neighborhood<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context Cold new world near solar system found by scientists Backyard Worlds: Planet 9- The Digital Flipbook It is a free online project that lets anyone browse through images by NASA\u2019s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. It is a part of Zooniverse. Zooniverse is a citizen science web portal owned and operated by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/planet-9-the-digital-flipbook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backyard Worlds: Planet 9- The Digital Flipbook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/earth-space-planets.jpg?fit=998%2C435&ssl=1","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1697781295},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}