Category Archives: Citizen Science

Asteroid Image Checker: Help Us Measure How Fast Asteroids Rotate

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on November 7th at 9pm Pacific time! https://SubscribeToOurChannel.com/ “Asteroids are small space rocks that can tell us a lot about how our solar system formed and changed over time. One important … Continue reading

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Rubin Comet Chasers

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on August 1st at 9pm Pacific time! https://SubscribeToOurChannel.com/ “Rubin Observatory, with the help of Rubin Comet Catchers, is poised to discover an unprecedented number of comets, active asteroids, and other rare … Continue reading

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Galaxy Zoo: JWST

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on May 23rd at 9pm Pacific time! https://SubscribeToOurChannel.com/ “Many different teams of scientists are using NASA’s latest space telescope, JWST to image galaxies so far away that they are back at … Continue reading

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UPDATE: MicroObservatory Online Robotic Telescopes

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on April 25th at 9pm Pacific time! https://SubscribeToOurChannel.com/ Early last March, an email arrived requesting answers to a survey about “…our network of free-to-use robotic telescopes at the Center for Astrophysics … Continue reading

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Exoasteroids

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on March 14th at 9pm Pacific time! https://SubscribeToOurChannel.com/ Help find asteroids around other stars! “Do you ever wonder what the future holds for our solar system? The Sun will eventually become … Continue reading

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Cosmic Disco: Characterizing Galaxy Collisions

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on January 31st at 9pm Pacific time! “Studying collisions between galaxies (galaxy mergers) have transformed our understanding of the Universe! With your help, we hope to better understand the connection between … Continue reading

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PROFILE: Hedy Lamarr

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on December 6th at 9pm Pacific time! Not Just A Pretty Face! ‘Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000, was an Austrian-born American actress … Continue reading

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SPLUS: Science Hunters

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on November 8th at 9pm Pacific time! “Welcome to the S-PLUS project! The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is a Brazilian-led and coordinated project that employs a robotic telescope located … Continue reading

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Help Us Welcome Sadie Coffin!

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on October 4th at 9pm Pacific time! Sadie Coffin is a 4th-year PhD student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, studying galaxy evolution through participatory science. She leads Redshift Wrangler, a … Continue reading

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The Daily Minor Planet

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on September 6th at 9pm Pacific time! Would you like to find an asteroid? With this Citizen Science Project, maybe you can! “At the Zooniverse, anyone can be a researcher “The … Continue reading

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