Tag: Citizen science
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SkyMapper Sighting signs up citizen scientists to hunt for supernovae
Supernova remnant N 63A shines in a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA / ESA / HEIC / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA) Calling all citizen scientists: The Australian National University wants you to join the search for supernovae. Brad Tucker from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics says…
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Astronomy Rewind sifts through old pictures to find new cosmic perspectives
A photo of the Orion Nebula from the June 1905 issue of Astronomical Journal, at left, can be matched up automatically with WorldWide Telescope’s sky atlas, at right. (AAS / NASA / SAO Astrophysics Data System / WorldWide Telescope) A new project called Astronomy Rewind is recruiting citizen scientists to bring decades-old cosmic images back…
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Looking for Planet 9 and other far-out objects? Finally, NASA has an app for that
An artist’s conception shows Planet X, a.k.a. Planet Nine. (Carnegie Institution / Robin Dienel) Citizen scientists can join an online hunt for icy worlds, brown dwarfs and other yet-to-be-discovered objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, using a technique that’s not all that different from the method that led to Pluto’s discovery 87 years ago. “Backyard Worlds:…