Australian National University researchers have invited the public to join them in the hunt for so called “Planet 9” by combing through a massive array of new pictures mapping the southern sky. The ANU from Monday will launch online access to the first complete digital map of the southern sky. Members of the public will be invited to scan time-lapse images for signs of new objects, in what Tucker likened to playing “where’s Wally?” on a grand scale. Chris Wolf, a co-researcher on the Planet 9 search and head of SkyMapper, said the 1.3m telescope was the only one in the world that mapped the whole southern sky. “Planet 9 is predicted to be a super Earth, about 10 times the mass and up to four times the size of our planet.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2017 19:52 UTC