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NASA / Zooniverse
Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors
Discover the Sun’s most extreme cosmic neighbors.
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Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
Search the realm beyond Neptune for new brown dwarfs and planets.
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Zooniverse
Burst Chaser
Classify gamma-ray bursts
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Made possible by the NASA Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (CSESP), the Chesapeake Water Watch is a joint project between the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the City College of New York (CCNY).
Chesapeake Water Watch (CWW)
Improve Chesapeake Bay water quality
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Southwest Research Institute
Citizen CATE 2024 (Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse 2024 experiment)
Measure polarized light to understand the magnetic field & plasma in the corona
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NASA / Zooniverse
Dark Energy Explorers
Help measure dark energy when the universe was just ~2-3 billion years old.
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Sonoma State University and University of California, Berkeley
Eclipse Megamovie
Study how the Sun’s plasma plumes and solar jets move and evolve
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Exoasteroids
Search for asteroids around dead stars!
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Fjord Phyto
Monitor phytoplankton communities along the Arctic and Antarctic coast
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NASA and The GLOBE Program
GLOBE Observer: Clouds
Help scientists understand the sky from above and below.
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