Backyard Worlds
What objects lie on the fringes of our Solar System just waiting to be discovered? In this Teen Astronomy Café — To Go! Instant Pack, students use patches of the sky to analyze the motion of objects over time. Students then use plots to determine the relationship between star temperature and wavelengths of light. Then they apply their understanding as they explore a citizen science activity and practice identifying brown dwarf candidates using data from telescopes. This activity is conducted in a Python Notebook, a web-based interactive computational environment that contains code, text, and plots.