Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. Ages of astronomical objects are often hard to measure, but essential for understanding […]
Help identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.
Das Projekt Juden und Dissidentenregister in Westfalen und Lippe (JuWeL), eine Kooperation vom Verein für Computergenealogie (CompGen), der Westfälischen Gesellschaft für Genealogie und Familienforschung (WGGF) und dem Landesarchiv NRW Abt. Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) zur Erfassung aller in den Juden- und Dissidentenregistern genannten Personen, ist abgeschlossen. Die Freiwilligen haben 12.843…
Der Dresdner Verein für Genealogie (DVG) und die SLUB Dresden laden unter dem Thema „150 Jahre Standesämter in Sachsen” zu einer gemeinsamen Fachtagung am 5. und 6. Juni 2026 ein. Die Veranstaltung findet im Klemperersaal der Zentralbibliothek der SLUB statt. SLUB ist die Abkürzung von Sächsische Landesbibliothek — Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Adresse: am Zelleschen […]
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Zum Geburtstag des Grundgesetzes am 23. Mai hat Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier zusammen mit der Deutschen Stiftung für Engagement und Ehrenamt (DSEE) den „Ehrentag“ initiiert. Der Fokus dieses deutschlandweiten Mitmachtags unter dem Motto „Für dich. Für uns. Für alle.“ liegt – im Gegensatz zum Internationalen Tag des Ehrenamtes am 05. Dezember – mehr auf gemeinschaftlichem Handeln,…
Identify star-forming clumps in galaxy images, and help train machines to do the same.
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NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has collected more than ten years of data from this zone – more than scientists can analyze alone. As Shock Detectives, you’ll help sort the chaotic from peaceful regions of the data, giving researchers a crucial set of clues.
After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists on those project teams. These volunteers made incredible contributions like: And all of them saw their passion and dedication translated into lasting […]
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A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas the size of Jupiter, less massive than stars. There’s one for every three or four stars near the Sun.
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The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration story by doing NASA science!
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As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded Impact Flash project scanned the Moon with their own telescopes and sent their videos to scientists to share what they saw from Earth.
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Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science project approaches this in a unique way: they compare the Earth’s magnetic field to a giant harp in space.
Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) F.5 of ROSES-25 solicits proposals for graduate student research relevant to SMD. On or about April 16, 2026 the following correction was made: the month of the pre-proposal webinar in 12.7 on page 26 of Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and […]
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Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) F.5 of ROSES-25 solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities and other eligible organizations for graduate student-designed and performed research projects that contribute to SMD’s science, technology, and exploration goals. The Future Investigator, i.e., the student, shall have the primary initiative to define…
BE the scientist! Participate in some of the numerous citizen science projects and events scheduled throughout April!
You and your telescope can join a global network of amateur astronomers documenting meteors hitting the moon.
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On Jan. 31, students, library staff, researchers, and community members gathered at the University of Florida’s (UF) Marston Science Library for the Environmental Monitoring through Education, Research, and Geospatial Engagement (EMERGE) NASA Data Hackathon. This initiative empowers libraries, educators, and individuals to engage in public health and environmental science using real-world data…
The bigger the hailstone, the more damage it can cause. But scientists find that predicting hailstone size can be challenging. How quickly does hail melt as it falls?
Patches of the Sun’s surface often show strong magnetic fields. These fields can emerge within a matter of hours, and can decay slowly or quickly, sometimes over days, weeks, or even months. Thanks to a new study about these long-lived active regions, we now know much more about the patches where these strong magnetic fields […]
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The Daily Minor Planet citizen science project is expanding! In addition to data received nightly from the Catalina Sky Survey’s Mt. Lemmon telescope in Arizona, the project’s science team is now processing images from the Bok 2.3-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The Bok is a mighty telescope run by the University of Arizona’s […]
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Biofilms are communities of microorganisms that stick to one another and also adhere to a nearby surface. They are intricately associated with life on Earth, enabling functions essential to human and plant systems.
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Galaxies carry the imprints of past encounters. When they pass near one another or collide, gravity pulls their stars into long tails, thin streams, and faint shells – features that preserve the history of these dramatic events. Thanks to deep, high-resolution images from the Euclid space telescope, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with critical contributions from NASA, we can now see these…
Help read the story of galactic encounters in galaxy shapes. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.
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On April 8, 2024, volunteers participating in NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie citizen science project all around the United States hurried to photograph the solar eclipse with the latest, greatest equipment, capturing groundbreaking images of the Sun’s corona.
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Use data from NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale Mission to shed light on solar storms. For anyone with a laptop or cell.
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Im Werkstattgespräch am 19. Februar 2026 „Daten produzieren und Daten verkaufen: kommerzielle DNA-Analysen im Blick von Familienforschung und Datenschutz” geht es um die Produktion und den Verkauf von genealogischen und genetischen Daten. Timo Kracke, aktiv im Verein für Computergenealogie (CompGen) gibt Einblick in die Verwendung von DNA-Analysen in der Praxis der Familienforschung, und Thilo…
Search for planets outside our solar system using data from NASA’s TESS mission. For anyone with a smartphone or laptop.
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Inspect data from NASA’s Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) Mission to shed light on solar storms and help keep astronauts safe. For anyone with a cell phone or laptop.
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