Even Citizen Scientists are Getting Time on JWST Congrats to citizen scientists space_r2 dancaselden and Melina Thevenot! Article by Nancy_A
A comparison of the sizes of a low mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter and Earth. Credit: NASA.
Brown dwarfs are objects which have a size between that of a giant planet like Jupiter and that of a small star. The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project asked citizen scientists to help find the Sun’s nearest neighbors — brown dwarfs and low-mass stars — as well as search for the hypothesized ninth planet in our Solar System.— with over 30 citizen science as co-authors.
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