Tag: Zooniverse
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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…