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Backyard Worlds: Art & Science
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a NASA-funded citizen science project which is part of the Zooniverse web portal. It aims to discover new brown dwarfs, faint objects that are less massive than stars, some of which might be among the nearest neighbors of the Solar System, and might conceivably detect the hypothesized Planet Nine. The project's principal…
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Backyard Worlds topic overview
The analysis highlights Art and Science as prominent areas in the source structure around Backyard Worlds.
Related topics
80
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
85
Extracted relationships
99
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
85
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Published discoveries · 49 topics
Project description · 14 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Origins · 7 topics
Project status · 2 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Available in
English
Commercial
No
Current status
Online
Launched
15 February 2017; 9 years ago (2017-02-15)
Registration
Optional
Type of site
Citizen science project
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How Backyard Worlds connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Backyard Worlds shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Backyard Worlds → Additional, Another, April, AU, CatWISE, CW0627, CWISE J060202, FGK, GJ, If, In December, In February, J05581644, K7, L5, Later, M4, M6, March, MJ Another extracted example is Backyard Worlds → Astrophysical Journal, Fe/H, July, June, Lodieu, Milky Way's, MJ, NEOWISE Proper Motion Survey, Only H2 CIA, RJ, Sun, The, These, They, This, WISE, WISE1810, WISEA J041451, WISEA J181006. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Backyard Worlds
Top relations
related to Co-moving benchmark systems· 32
Backyard Worlds → Additional, Another, April, AU, CatWISE, CW0627, CWISE J060202, FGK, GJ, If, In December, In February, J05581644, K7, L5, Later, M4, M6, March, MJ
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 99 structured relationships around Backyard Worlds. Examples in this analysis include Backyard Worlds → Available in → English and Backyard Worlds → Commercial → No. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
Backyard Worlds
Available in
English
1.00
infobox
Backyard Worlds
Commercial
No
1.00
infobox
Backyard Worlds
Current status
Online
1.00
infobox
Backyard Worlds
Launched
15 February 2017; 9 years ago (2017-02-15)
1.00
infobox
Backyard Worlds
Registration
Optional
1.00
infobox
Backyard Worlds
Type of site
Citizen science project
1.00
infobox
Backyard Worlds
URL
www.backyardworlds.org
1.00
infobox
Wiseview
instance of
to improve the ability to detect objects some participants have created their own tools
0.80
text
a web-based animation visualization tool.Once candidates have been identified the science team follow-up the most scientifically interesting objects using ground-based telescopes
instance of
to improve the ability to detect objects some participants have created their own tools
0.80
text
Backyard Worlds
related to 95 cold brown dwarfs observed with Spitzer
In August
0.60
section
Backyard Worlds
related to 95 cold brown dwarfs observed with Spitzer
Astrophysical Journal
0.60
section
Backyard Worlds
related to 95 cold brown dwarfs observed with Spitzer
Spitzer Space Telescope
0.60
section
No triples extracted yet.
Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Backyard Worlds bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Worlds, Discovery and Project. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Backyard Worlds
Worlds
Discovery
Project
Citizen
Additional
Published
Also
Planet
Cool
Science
Spitzer
Systems
backyard worlds
Worlds
Discovery
Project
Citizen
Additional
Published
Also
Planet
Cool
Science
Spitzer
Systems
citizen science
Project
Worlds
Science
Published
Also
Planet
Old
Discovered
Candidates
Discovery
Known
Motion
brown dwarfs
Dwarfs
Dwarf
Subdwarfs
Two
Published
Confirmed
Spectral
Type
Also
Planet
Discovery
New
planet nine
Science
Would
Citizen
Worlds
Project
Light
Additional
Dwarfs
Also
Images
Brown
New
dwarf planet
White
Candidates
Science
Would
Old
Citizen
Worlds
Project
System
Years
Known
Light
cool subdwarfs
Subdwarfs
Project
New
Spitzer
Two
Spectral
Wise
Worlds
Discovered
Dwarfs
Discovery
Science
white dwarf
Years
White
Candidates
Old
System
Known
Discovery
Science
Spitzer
Systems
Additional
Published
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Backyard Worlds, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Backyard Worlds with Published discoveries. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Backyard Worlds
Nodes86
Edges85
Triples99
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023256
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Backyard Worlds to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art & Science, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
