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Citizen Science Highlights

NASA needs your help! You can collaborate with professional scientists, conduct cutting-edge science, and make real discoveries. A science degree is not required, just a passion for understanding the natural world. Here, you can read news about NASA-funded citizen science projects, new discoveries, and opportunities to get involved. For more information on current citizen science projects.

NASA Volunteers help discover Earth-like candidate planet

NASA volunteers and a citizen scientist-turned-professional helped discover a candidate planet remarkably similar to Earth.

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A planet illuminated against the blackness of space, its axis tilted to the left of the frame. The planet has a wide band of pale orange around its equator, pale blue regions above and below that, and wispy white clouds scattered around its face.
Artist's concept of exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, dubbed an "ice-cold Earth" because it's a possible rocky planet slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star about 146 light-years away.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Keith Miller (Caltech/IPAC)
Hail Yeah! NASA Researchers Use Volunteer Observations for Hail Estimates
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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?

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Volunteers Find Oddly High Solar Flare Rates
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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…

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Extra Extra! Extra Data Stream Added to the Daily Minor Planet!
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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…

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