{"id":6321,"date":"2014-02-03T06:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2014-02-03T06:59:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:59:53","slug":"disk-detective-search-for-star-systems-with-planet-forming-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6321","title":{"rendered":"Disk Detective: Search for star systems with planet-forming debris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zooniverse<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0has opened a new citizen science program called\u00a0Disk Detective<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Scientists are combing our galaxy looking for stars that could be harbouring planet-forming disks. They need your help to explain this puzzling part of stellar evolution!<\/em><\/p>\n

What is WISE looking for?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

WISE is a NASA mission surveying the whole sky in infrared. This project is looking at stars to find dusty debris disks, similar to our asteroid field. These disks suggest that these stars are in the early stages of forming planetary systems. Learning more about these stars can tell us how our Solar System formed.<\/em><\/p>\n

How will my contribution help?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Computers often confuse debris disks around stars with other astronomical objects. We need your help to sort out what stars actually have these disks from Galaxies and Nebulae.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read about the project here:\u00a0Disk Detective: The Newest Astronomy Citizen Science Project – astrobites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zooniverse\u00a0\u00a0has opened a new citizen science program called\u00a0Disk Detective: Scientists are combing our galaxy looking for stars that could be harbouring planet-forming disks. They need your help to explain this puzzling part of stellar evolution! What is WISE looking for? WISE is a NASA mission surveying the whole sky in infrared. This project is looking … Continue reading Disk Detective: Search for star systems with planet-forming debris<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1DX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9603,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9603","url_meta":{"origin":6321,"position":0},"title":"Volunteer ‘Disk Detectives’ classify over a million possible planetary habitats","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A citizen-science project with NASA's\u00a0WISE\u00a0(Wide-field Infrared Survey) mission has been a quite successful: Volunteer 'Disk Detectives' Top 1 Million Classifications of Possible Planetary Habitats A NASA-sponsored website designed to crowdsource analysis of data from the agency's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has reached an impressive milestone. 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