{"id":34621,"date":"2017-02-16T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nasa-wants-you-to-help-find-a-new-planet"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:57","slug":"nasa-wants-you-to-help-find-a-new-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nasa-wants-you-to-help-find-a-new-planet","title":{"rendered":"NASA wants you to help find a new planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-wants-you-to-help-find-a-new-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you still upset over Pluto\u2019s demotion, there may be a new ninth planet. Or at least NASA scientists believe it exists \u2014 and they want you to help find it.<\/p>\n<p>The Zooniverse space projects site has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=6747\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> a NASA-funded venture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/marckuchner\/backyard-worlds-planet-9\" target=\"_blank\">Backyard Worlds: Planet 9<\/a>, which lets anyone participate in the search for the not-yet-discovered planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are really low barriers to entry,\u201d Dr. Laura Trouille of Zooniverse told CNN. \u201cAnyone can participate, from a kindergartener to a 95-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/16\/us\/nasa-search-worlds-trnd\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/16\/us\/nasa-search-worlds-trnd\/index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you still upset over Pluto\u2019s demotion, there may be a new ninth planet. Or at least NASA scientists believe it exists \u2014 and they want you to help find it. The Zooniverse space projects site has launched a NASA-funded venture, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, which lets anyone participate in the search for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34621","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48839,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34621\/revisions\/48839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}