An artist’s conception of three types of brown dwarfs.

An example of a large dipole object (at lower left) spotted by a Backyard Worlds participant.

Citizen scientists are asked to identify dipoles, which are black-and-white objects that seem to flip flop from frame to frame, and "movers," which are objects that appear to move in a line, changing position in each frame. This animation shows sample frames for both types of these objects of interest.

The orbit of a possible ninth planet in our solar system is shown in brown.