视频：加入寻找新的不远的世界

Join the Search for New Nearby Worlds

《加入寻找新的不远的世界》

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. 

一个由NASA建立的网站可以让公众寻找远离于我们太阳系和在邻近星系之间的新世界

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. 

网站名称为“Backyard Worlds:planet 9(后院的世界：第9行星)”,允许每个人去参与通过NASA的广角红外探测望远镜(WISE)获得的图像组成的短片中的搜寻任务

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

短片突出的图像源已经逐渐扫过天空

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

新网站使用WISE的全天数据去搜寻远离我们太阳系的未知的目标

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,加州理工大学天文学家表示一些遥远的太阳系目标的轨道特性表明它们受到一颗未被探测到的行星的重力影响,研究者称之为“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预期的那样明亮,那么它就可以在WISE的数据库中发现

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

搜索也可能发现更多遥远目标比如在附近星系的棕矮星,有时也被叫做失败的恒星

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

 这些陌生的目标表现为恒星但逐渐变得像行星,最冷的一个更像木星

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. 

在网站上,世界各地的人们可以通过百万张翻页动画来开展搜索行动,简短的动画展示了近几年来天空中出现的小不点是如何变化的

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

使用者标记的移动对象优先由专业天文学家组成的科学团队所跟踪观测

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

 发现者可以在任何的科学刊物上共享他们的从此项目中获得的劳动成果

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

 快来加入Backyard Worlds:planet 9(后院的世界：第9行星)在太阳系外附近星系之间寻找新世界的项目吧！

视频源：NASA Goddard