Project: Mavericks Lab Mavericks Lab, an applied research accelerator, is looking for a few good planetary scientists. The Lab is a 6 week interdisciplinary accelerator that will bring together Planetary Scientists and Data Scientists to work on NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge. It will run in conjunction with NASA Ames and SETI, from June 27th to […]
Project: Asteroid Data Hunter App A citizen science challenge has spawned a citizen science app. In 2014, NASA announced an Asteroid Grand Challenge. In a series of contests, participants were asked to develop improved algorithms to find asteroids in telescope images. The challenge offered more than $50,000 in prizes, and concluded in December. The winning […]
Many of the citizen science projects covered on this site are designed to allow anyone to participate. This week, I have one that is designed to pique the interest of those of you in IT: the computer scientists, the developers, and the people who like to think in terms of big data, algorithms, and artificial […]
Finding extrasolar planets (planets not in our solar system) is hard — it’s a big universe, after all. However, if you concentrate your efforts on finding “debris disks” (clouds of dust, gas, and rocks) around stars, you might have better luck finding planets. This is because planets form from these disks (also called “YSO disks”). […]