Greetings, Zooniverse!
Today we are launching a new astronomy project - Eclipsing Binary Patrol.
At Eclipsing Binary Patrol, you will help us check real data from the TESS space telescope, one target at a time. Together, we will be investigating binary stars observed by TESS and 1) check whether a particular target produces stellar eclipses; 2) verify its orbital period; and 3) ensure the target star is the true source of the detected eclipses.
As a volunteer, you'll be essential in distinguishing genuine discoveries from false signals. To get involved, visit our page on the Zooniverse platform and start classifying today at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/vbk ... ary-patrol
Has this new NASA citizen science project sparked your interest? Consider subscribing to our NASA-Zooniverse email list to receive updates and news regarding broader NASA citizen science projects and efforts. If interested, please follow these instructions to sign up:
Log in to your Zooniverse account.
Visit https://www.zooniverse.org/settings/email
Click the checkbox under “Zooniverse partner email preferences” to sign up for periodic email updates from NASA.
Happy classifying!
- Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
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Hello Zooniverse!
Please welcome Name that Neutrino! re-launched and updated. Here is a message from the research team:
"Help us decode signals from outer space with the re-launch of Name that Neutrino! We’ve made improvements, added more videos, and translated the project into Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Dutch.
Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body unnoticed. At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects these elusive particles and works to identify their astronomical origins to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. Such an undertaking requires a massive amount of data, with one terabyte of data recorded daily. Organizing the data can be labor intensive and this is where you can help!
When a neutrino interacts with a molecule in the ice, secondary charged particles emit light that creates a signal or light pattern that can be used to determine the neutrino’s energy and direction. We are asking for you to watch a short clip and pick a category for that signal. By categorizing the data, you are helping us weed through the background signals and help determine what type of particle caused that signal. Your contributions will also be compared to machine learning predictions in order to help train and improve AI algorithms.
Join us and give it a try! Visit: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... t-neutrino
Spanish: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=es
German: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=de
Italian:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=it
French: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=fr
Dutch: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=nl "
Happy classifying!
- Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
Please welcome Name that Neutrino! re-launched and updated. Here is a message from the research team:
"Help us decode signals from outer space with the re-launch of Name that Neutrino! We’ve made improvements, added more videos, and translated the project into Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Dutch.
Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body unnoticed. At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects these elusive particles and works to identify their astronomical origins to unlock the mysteries of the Universe. Such an undertaking requires a massive amount of data, with one terabyte of data recorded daily. Organizing the data can be labor intensive and this is where you can help!
When a neutrino interacts with a molecule in the ice, secondary charged particles emit light that creates a signal or light pattern that can be used to determine the neutrino’s energy and direction. We are asking for you to watch a short clip and pick a category for that signal. By categorizing the data, you are helping us weed through the background signals and help determine what type of particle caused that signal. Your contributions will also be compared to machine learning predictions in order to help train and improve AI algorithms.
Join us and give it a try! Visit: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... t-neutrino
Spanish: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=es
German: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=de
Italian:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=it
French: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=fr
Dutch: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ice ... anguage=nl "
Happy classifying!
- Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
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Greetings!
I'm excited to announce the launch of a brand new astronomy project: Exoasteroids
Have you ever wondered what might happen to our solar system in a few billion years? The Sun will eventually turn into a white dwarf – a dead remnant of its current self – consuming inner planets along the way.
Looking at white dwarfs can teach us about the ultimate fate of our own solar system. We’re launching the Exoasteroids project to search for white dwarfs that change brightness. Such white dwarfs may be remnants of planetary systems still actively destroying their lingering asteroids, leading to outbursts detectable in images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.
Please join Exoasteroids to help us find planetary remains and disintegrating asteroids in other solar systems!
To get started, visit:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/exo ... oasteroids
Has this new NASA citizen science project sparked your interest? Consider subscribing to our NASA-Zooniverse email list to receive updates and news regarding broader NASA citizen science projects and efforts. If interested, please follow these instructions to sign up:
Log in to your Zooniverse account.
Visit https://www.zooniverse.org/settings/email
Click the checkbox under “Zooniverse partner email preferences” to sign up for periodic email updates from NASA.
Finally: we invite you to check out a new, refreshed Zooniverse homepage (https://www.zooniverse.org/) that just launched. Read about the changes in this blog post -- we're excited for you to check out the new features!
Happy classifying!
Cliff & the Zooniverse Team
I'm excited to announce the launch of a brand new astronomy project: Exoasteroids
Have you ever wondered what might happen to our solar system in a few billion years? The Sun will eventually turn into a white dwarf – a dead remnant of its current self – consuming inner planets along the way.
Looking at white dwarfs can teach us about the ultimate fate of our own solar system. We’re launching the Exoasteroids project to search for white dwarfs that change brightness. Such white dwarfs may be remnants of planetary systems still actively destroying their lingering asteroids, leading to outbursts detectable in images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.
Please join Exoasteroids to help us find planetary remains and disintegrating asteroids in other solar systems!
To get started, visit:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/exo ... oasteroids
Has this new NASA citizen science project sparked your interest? Consider subscribing to our NASA-Zooniverse email list to receive updates and news regarding broader NASA citizen science projects and efforts. If interested, please follow these instructions to sign up:
Log in to your Zooniverse account.
Visit https://www.zooniverse.org/settings/email
Click the checkbox under “Zooniverse partner email preferences” to sign up for periodic email updates from NASA.
Finally: we invite you to check out a new, refreshed Zooniverse homepage (https://www.zooniverse.org/) that just launched. Read about the changes in this blog post -- we're excited for you to check out the new features!
Happy classifying!
Cliff & the Zooniverse Team
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Hello Zooniverse!
We are happy to announce the launch of two new projects on Zooniverse: Reading Emotions and Ranges: Mammal Traits from Western North America. Whether you're interested in exploring emotions of literary characters or helping document the traits of mammals, your contribution can make a real difference. Here is what the research teams have to say:
Reading Emotions
Calling all readers! As part of the Citizen Readers for citizen science initiative, we're excited to announce the launch of our latest project: Reading Emotions!
We need your help for the first-ever citizen science project to study the diversity of characters' emotions in stories.
How does it work? Volunteers will assist us by annotating short passages to pinpoint the emotions that characters are feeling in a given moment of a story.
Characters are the backbone of great storytelling. With your help, our aim is to build AI models to better understand who characters are and what they do within diverse narrative worlds to address one very big question: why do human beings tell stories?
The proliferation of stories today is astounding. There is simply no way to account for the breadth of human creativity without relying on AI. But these systems are often trained in biased or unknown ways.
By enlisting the help of readers like you, we can build better, more transparent AI systems to study human storytelling. All of the data and models we generate will be open to the public, setting an important standard for transparent and inclusive AI. Our goal is not to build robot storytellers. With your help, we want to gain a deeper understanding of human storytelling.
Come get involved and give the project a try! If you're a passionate reader of stories, we’d love you to join.
Reading Emotions: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cit ... g-emotions
Citizen Readers: https://www.zooniverse.org/organization ... en-readers
Notes from Nature: Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America
We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new project at Notes from Nature: Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America
Mammals are as fascinating as they are diverse. Some are as small as 1.5 inches long (3.8cm), while others stand more than six feet tall and weigh up to 2000 pounds (183cm, 907kg). Despite this diversity, all mammals have to find ways to survive under the pressures of human development and changes to the climate.
We want to better understand how and why mammals respond to changes in their environment. One of the best ways to do this is to learn as much as possible about how their bodies and behaviors change over time. These characteristics, also known as traits, can tell us all about how these animals adapt to change.
We can’t do this on our own, so we’re asking you to help us. The more traits that we transcribe and document about these animal species, the more we’ll know about how to conserve them and their environments into the future.
We welcome you to join us for these excellent expedition so we can work together to mobilize ecological trait data about mammals! To get started, simply visit Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/md6 ... th-america and choose an expedition to work on.
Content Warning:
This project contains images that some may find distressing. Images may contain prepared animal specimens representing all or parts of the animal. However there will be no blood or body fluids in these images. Natural history collections are important repositories of specimens and information about their morphological, reproductive, physiological, and behavioral properties. These data allow scientists to establish biodiversity baselines and better predict global change response. Collecting animals for scientific study is a well-established practice that follows strict guidelines on the capture, handling, use, and preservation of individuals. To learn more about these please see: https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl ... 87/2459794
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
We are happy to announce the launch of two new projects on Zooniverse: Reading Emotions and Ranges: Mammal Traits from Western North America. Whether you're interested in exploring emotions of literary characters or helping document the traits of mammals, your contribution can make a real difference. Here is what the research teams have to say:
Reading Emotions
Calling all readers! As part of the Citizen Readers for citizen science initiative, we're excited to announce the launch of our latest project: Reading Emotions!
We need your help for the first-ever citizen science project to study the diversity of characters' emotions in stories.
How does it work? Volunteers will assist us by annotating short passages to pinpoint the emotions that characters are feeling in a given moment of a story.
Characters are the backbone of great storytelling. With your help, our aim is to build AI models to better understand who characters are and what they do within diverse narrative worlds to address one very big question: why do human beings tell stories?
The proliferation of stories today is astounding. There is simply no way to account for the breadth of human creativity without relying on AI. But these systems are often trained in biased or unknown ways.
By enlisting the help of readers like you, we can build better, more transparent AI systems to study human storytelling. All of the data and models we generate will be open to the public, setting an important standard for transparent and inclusive AI. Our goal is not to build robot storytellers. With your help, we want to gain a deeper understanding of human storytelling.
Come get involved and give the project a try! If you're a passionate reader of stories, we’d love you to join.
Reading Emotions: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cit ... g-emotions
Citizen Readers: https://www.zooniverse.org/organization ... en-readers
Notes from Nature: Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America
We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new project at Notes from Nature: Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America
Mammals are as fascinating as they are diverse. Some are as small as 1.5 inches long (3.8cm), while others stand more than six feet tall and weigh up to 2000 pounds (183cm, 907kg). Despite this diversity, all mammals have to find ways to survive under the pressures of human development and changes to the climate.
We want to better understand how and why mammals respond to changes in their environment. One of the best ways to do this is to learn as much as possible about how their bodies and behaviors change over time. These characteristics, also known as traits, can tell us all about how these animals adapt to change.
We can’t do this on our own, so we’re asking you to help us. The more traits that we transcribe and document about these animal species, the more we’ll know about how to conserve them and their environments into the future.
We welcome you to join us for these excellent expedition so we can work together to mobilize ecological trait data about mammals! To get started, simply visit Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/md6 ... th-america and choose an expedition to work on.
Content Warning:
This project contains images that some may find distressing. Images may contain prepared animal specimens representing all or parts of the animal. However there will be no blood or body fluids in these images. Natural history collections are important repositories of specimens and information about their morphological, reproductive, physiological, and behavioral properties. These data allow scientists to establish biodiversity baselines and better predict global change response. Collecting animals for scientific study is a well-established practice that follows strict guidelines on the capture, handling, use, and preservation of individuals. To learn more about these please see: https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/articl ... 87/2459794
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
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Welcome space explorers!
Baby Star Search team is searching for Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, which are jets of gas produced by newly-forming "protostars". HH objects are important because they show us where new stars are forming. However they are quite rare - only about a thousand of them are known to exist. You could find one that has never been seen before!
To find HH objects researchers are taking pictures of giant nebulae where stars form. The pictures are taken with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4-meter telescope, which is located at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. The images produced by this camera are huge - about 570 megapixels each. To make the search easier, each one of these images is divided into about two thousand smaller ones. There are currently about 50,000 images in total - and we need your help to search them!
To join the research project please go to: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ast ... tar-search
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
Baby Star Search team is searching for Herbig-Haro (HH) objects, which are jets of gas produced by newly-forming "protostars". HH objects are important because they show us where new stars are forming. However they are quite rare - only about a thousand of them are known to exist. You could find one that has never been seen before!
To find HH objects researchers are taking pictures of giant nebulae where stars form. The pictures are taken with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco 4-meter telescope, which is located at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile. The images produced by this camera are huge - about 570 megapixels each. To make the search easier, each one of these images is divided into about two thousand smaller ones. There are currently about 50,000 images in total - and we need your help to search them!
To join the research project please go to: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ast ... tar-search
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
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Hello Zooniverse!
Every night, in the quiet Chilean mountains, the T80S telescope takes many pictures of large parts of the sky. We are excited to announce the S-PLUS Science Hunters project, led by a researcher at Atacama University. Join us in the quest of novel astronomical objects, hunting for asteroids, star clusters, multiple galaxy systems, star forming galaxies, exotic objects and all the unknown objects waiting to be revealed.
The S-PLUS collaboration is a Brazilian lead effort to understand several aspects of the universe, from the formation of the first stars, to the evolution of galaxies in different environments, till the identification of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations. Open your eyes to the beauty of the night sky and help classify and identify extraordinary objects!
Give it a try at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cfl ... ce-hunters
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
Every night, in the quiet Chilean mountains, the T80S telescope takes many pictures of large parts of the sky. We are excited to announce the S-PLUS Science Hunters project, led by a researcher at Atacama University. Join us in the quest of novel astronomical objects, hunting for asteroids, star clusters, multiple galaxy systems, star forming galaxies, exotic objects and all the unknown objects waiting to be revealed.
The S-PLUS collaboration is a Brazilian lead effort to understand several aspects of the universe, from the formation of the first stars, to the evolution of galaxies in different environments, till the identification of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations. Open your eyes to the beauty of the night sky and help classify and identify extraordinary objects!
Give it a try at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/cfl ... ce-hunters
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
Re: Zooniverse
Hello Zooniverse!
In 1604 a Lincolnshire farmer called Ralph bequeathed his wife Emma eight cows of her choosing, and all the shelves in their milk house. In 1666 a London clergymen asked for his books to be burned after his death. In 1726 Helen Spratt left her niece a pair of gold shoes made from the boots King James II wore at his coronation. These are just a few of the detailed insights into the everyday lives and relationships of people in the past that can be found in wills – and if you find them as fascinating as we do, then this new Zooniverse project is for you!
‘The Material Culture of Wills: England, 1540-1790' asks you to check automatically generated transcriptions of wills made in England and Wales between 1540 and 1790 and to transcribe some wills yourself. It is a project run by historians and data scientists from the University of Exeter and The National Archives. We are developing a handwritten text recognition (HTR) model to automatically transcribe the largest-ever sample of early modern wills, 25,000 in total.
Why are we doing this? Because wills are one of the most numerous and valuable sets of historical records available, revealing information on everything from wealth to family relationships and friendships, to changing religious beliefs. With your help, the HTR model will allow us to analyse these documents at a scale not previously possible to reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of profound economic transformation.
To enter the wonderful world of wills and to work with us to open up this manuscript collection to as wide an audience as possible, visit https://zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith ... -1540-1790.
Connect with the researchers: The Wills Project Website | twitter/X | Bluesky
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team
In 1604 a Lincolnshire farmer called Ralph bequeathed his wife Emma eight cows of her choosing, and all the shelves in their milk house. In 1666 a London clergymen asked for his books to be burned after his death. In 1726 Helen Spratt left her niece a pair of gold shoes made from the boots King James II wore at his coronation. These are just a few of the detailed insights into the everyday lives and relationships of people in the past that can be found in wills – and if you find them as fascinating as we do, then this new Zooniverse project is for you!
‘The Material Culture of Wills: England, 1540-1790' asks you to check automatically generated transcriptions of wills made in England and Wales between 1540 and 1790 and to transcribe some wills yourself. It is a project run by historians and data scientists from the University of Exeter and The National Archives. We are developing a handwritten text recognition (HTR) model to automatically transcribe the largest-ever sample of early modern wills, 25,000 in total.
Why are we doing this? Because wills are one of the most numerous and valuable sets of historical records available, revealing information on everything from wealth to family relationships and friendships, to changing religious beliefs. With your help, the HTR model will allow us to analyse these documents at a scale not previously possible to reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of profound economic transformation.
To enter the wonderful world of wills and to work with us to open up this manuscript collection to as wide an audience as possible, visit https://zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith ... -1540-1790.
Connect with the researchers: The Wills Project Website | twitter/X | Bluesky
Happy classifying!
Alisa & the Zooniverse Team