NASA Citizen Science
This is something attendees at the STEM group could get involved with and use the group as a meet point to discuss projects and ideas being worked on.
Lets put Torbay on the map by building an active science community
Citizen Science Projects
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. More than 410 NASA citizen scientists have been named as co-authors on refereed scientific publications. Want to work on some real NASA science? Click on one of the 34 projects below to get started. NASA citizen science projects are open to everyone around the world, not limited to U.S. citizens or residents. Projects with the
icon can be done by anyone, anywhere, with just a cellphone or laptop.
If you're note quite ready for this yet, then perhaps form a community so we can help each other build the skills and support each other.
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#NASA,#CitizenScience,#STEMGroup,#Science,#Research.
Citizen scientists join fight to clean up rivers
This looks like something everyone can really get involved in, monitoring the water quality in rivers and other water. There is more details in a recent BBC Article
I will look in to this and see how to get involved, as it may also be something the Paignton Library STEM Group could get involved with.
Will post updates to my Fediverse for further discussion.
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#Science,#CitizenScience,#Chemistry,#Water,#Quality,#Environment,#BBC
Zooniverse latest 21/10/2022
Interested in helping astronomers classify pictures of distant galaxies from earlier in the Universe’s history? Check out the dawn of Galaxy Zoo’s newest iteration: Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn!
Galaxy Zoo is the most popular project on the Zooniverse, asking volunteers to classify images of galaxies based on their visual appearance. Galaxies have a variety of shapes, from ball-like ellipticals to those with grand spiral arms, so studying how they form and evolve over cosmic time requires classifying large numbers of them: that’s where you come in!
This week, Galaxy Zoo begins its latest incarnation, Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn, with tens of thousands of new galaxy images now available for you to help classify! These were taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on board the 8.2m Subaru telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, as part of the Hawaii Two-0 (H20) survey.
Compared to previous incarnations of Galaxy Zoo, H20 enables us to see fainter and more distant galaxies from earlier in the Universe's history. This deeper imaging also means we can observe many more distant galaxies in the same patch of sky, so the images you will see may often appear redder and blurrier than you might expect. H20 is a key component to the more ambitious Cosmic Dawn survey, aiming to push the boundaries of extragalactic astronomy by studying galaxy evolution out to a few hundred million years after the Big Bang!
There are also some rare types of galaxies that we don't want to miss, so make sure to check out the Tutorial!
James Pearson, Galaxy Zoo & H2O teams
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#CitizenScience,#Science,#Zooniverse,#Galaxies,#Early,#CosmicDawn,
#Astronomy