{"id":113683,"date":"2020-10-01T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-website-lets-you-help-nasa-find-alien-worlds"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:22:18","slug":"new-website-lets-you-help-nasa-find-alien-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-website-lets-you-help-nasa-find-alien-worlds","title":{"rendered":"New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-website-lets-you-help-nasa-find-alien-worlds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA just launched a new citizen science project \u2014 it wants the public\u2019s help to find and identify brand new exoplanets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Human Touch<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of work that technically could be automated with an algorithm trained to spot new worlds, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> <\/em>reports. But it turns out that in this case, there\u2019s no substitute <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/astronomers-quarantined-citizens-hunt-galaxies\">for human judgment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutomated methods of processing TESS data sometimes fail to catch imposters that look like exoplanets,\u201d Veselin Kostov, the NASA researcher leading the Planet Patrol project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasa-s-planet-patrol-project\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cThe human eye is extremely good at spotting such imposters, and we need citizen scientists to help us distinguish between the lookalikes and genuine planets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA just launched a new citizen science project \u2014 it wants the public\u2019s help to find and identify brand new exoplanets. Human Touch This is the sort of work that technically could be automated with an algorithm trained to spot new worlds, Space.com reports. But it turns out that in this case, there\u2019s no substitute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}