眡頻：加入尋找新的不遠的世界

Join the Search for New Nearby Worlds

《加入尋找新的不遠的世界》

A new website funded by NASA lets the public search for new worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar space. 

一個由NASA建立的網站可以讓公衆尋找遠離於我們太陽系和在鄰近星系之間的新世界

The website, called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, allows everyone to participate in the search though brief movies made from images captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. 

網站名稱爲“Backyard Worlds:planet9(後院的世界：第9行星)”,允許每個人去蓡與通過NASA的廣角紅外探測望遠鏡(WISE)獲得的圖像組成的短片中的搜尋任務

The movies highlight sources that have gradually moved across the sky. 

短片突出的圖像源已經逐漸掃過天空

The new website uses WISE all-sky data to search for unknown objects in and beyond our own solar system. 

新網站使用WISE的全天數據去搜尋遠離我們太陽系的未知的目標

In 2016, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology showed that several distant solar system objects possessed orbital features indicating they were affected by the gravity of an as-yet-undetected planet, which the researchers nicknamed"Planet Nine." 

在2016年,加州理工大學天文學家表示一些遙遠的太陽系目標的軌道特性表明它們受到一顆未被探測到的行星的重力影響,研究者稱之爲“第九行星”

If Planet Nine exists and is as bright as some predictions, it could show up in WISE data. 

如果第九行星存在而且它像預期的那樣明亮,那麽它就可以在WISE的數據庫中發現

The search also may discover more distant objects like brown dwarfs, sometimes called failed stars, in nearby interstellar space.

搜索也可能發現更多遙遠目標比如在附近星系的棕矮星,有時也被叫做失敗的恒星

 These strange objects form like stars but evolve like planets, the coldest ones being much like Jupiter. 

 這些陌生的目標表現爲恒星但逐漸變得像行星,最冷的一個更像木星

On the website, people around the world can work their way through millions of"flipbooks," which are brief animations showing how small patches of the sky changed over several years. 

在網站上,世界各地的人們可以通過百萬張繙頁動畫來開展搜索行動,簡短的動畫展示了近幾年來天空中出現的小不點是如何變化的

Moving objects flagged by users will be prioritized by the science team for later follow-up observations by professional astronomers.

使用者標記的移動對象優先由專業天文學家組成的科學團隊所跟蹤觀測

 Participants will share credit for their discoveries in any scientific publications that result from the project.

 發現者可以在任何的科學刊物上共享他們的從此項目中獲得的勞動成果

 Join the search for new worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in nearby interstellar space at Backyard Worlds: Planet 9.

 快來加入Backyard Worlds:planet 9(後院的世界：第9行星)在太陽系外附近星系之間尋找新世界的項目吧！

眡頻源：NASA Goddard