Even Citizen Scientists are Getting Time on JWST

Citizen science projects have been made exciting by members of the public over the years. The discovery of Hanny's Voorwerp is one example of a phenomenon brought to scientists' attention by citizen scientists.

citizen scientists discovered unusual brown dwarf stars and will be observing them with the hopes of learning more about them One of the citizen scientists has been named as a co- investigator on a winning proposal.

The brown dwarfs that will be observed by JWST were discovered by citizen scientists participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a project from the Zooniverse collaboration that uses the power of citizen science to help distinguish real heavenly objects from image artifacts in data from NASA's Wide-

There are brown dwarfs which are between the size of Jupiter and a small star. citizen scientists were asked to help find the Sun's nearest neighbors, brown dwarfs and low-mass stars, as well as search for the ninth planet in our Solar System.

Over the course of 5 years, the project has generated over 20 scientific papers, with over 30 citizen science as co- authors. Some of the discoveries have been allowed to be observed on the telescopes.

The largest telescope in space will be looking at these objects.

Arttu Sainio, who discovered one of the brown dwarfs, said that it was worth the time and effort. Hundreds of brown dwarf candidates have been followed up and researched since I discovered them. Melina Thevenot was also a citizen scientist.

A group of brown dwarfs will be studied in order to understand the diversity of cold worlds.

Caselden said that they will see their discoveries in ways never before seen.

Caselden discovered a strange brown dwarf that was bright in others but faint in others, suggesting it was hotter than other brown dwarfs.

The project continues to look for brown dwarfs and other objects near the sun. Check out the project or other citizen science projects if you want to join in and discover your own target.