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Happy 2025, Zooniverse!

Thank you for all your help in 2024 - it's been an amazing year of discovery and community building. Here is a brief video with some 2024 highlights: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ottGybrju8c

And now we are ready for more. To start the new year off with a bang, please join us for the launch of Cosmic Cataclysms!

This new project asks volunteers to spot cosmic explosions in data from NASA’s TESS space telescope. This project is searching for the new types of fast explosions that occur in our Universe. The resulting data will be used to locate thousands of fast explosions in TESS data for follow-up analysis to identify what exploded.

We ask you to classify images which are created for locations and times that an explosion-hunting algorithm has identified as interesting. Sometimes the algorithm is wrong, picking up junk and other real phenomena like asteroids which contaminate our sample. Since TESS has captured an enormous number of images over the last 6 years, covering the entire sky, the total number of candidates is more than this project’s team can classify. Your classifications will help researchers find the truly interesting and fast explosions hidden in TESS data.

Join the search and give the project a try -- visit: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/che ... cataclysms

Happy classifying!

Alisa & the Zooniverse Team

Hello Zooniverse friends,

NASA Citizen Science, SciStarter, the US Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Association for the Advancement of Participatory Sciences will feature two Zooniverse projects during a special presentation of “Do NASA Science LIVE!” a special, two-part virtual series for Service Members, Veterans and their Families. Learn about and participate in the Burst Chaser project, which is studying gamma-ray bursts, and The Daily Minor Planet, which is searching for undiscovered near-Earth asteroids. Hear first-hand from a veteran whose involvement in NASA projects helped him build confidence and skills, even become a leader on a research project. Zooniverse project scientists behind these projects will provide step-by-step instructions, share recent outcomes, and answer your questions. During this friendly, highly interactive event, speakers will also share information on how to intern or work at NASA!

The first online event will be held on January 29th at 7pm US Eastern Time, followed by a second event on April 10th at 12:30pm US Eastern Time.

Register for one or both events: https://scistarter.org/go/DoNASAScienceLIVE-Zooniverse

Emma & the SciStarter Team