Citizen Scientists Invited to Join Quest for New Worlds

Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 volunteers scour infrared images from NASA, searching animated blinks for moving objects in our cosmic neighborhood. Like other white dwarf stars, J0207 shows a bluish tinge in visible light (top), but also sports a strikingly orange hue in the infrared (bottom), indicating the unexpected presence of circumstellar dust rings. More discoveries displaying subtle infrared motion will be unlocked by the expanded Backyard Worlds re-launch data set.