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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 12:57 PM Feb 2014

DU can help NASA: Find the Birthplace of Planets

Scientists are combing our galaxy looking for stars that could be harbouring planet-forming disks. They need your help to explain this puzzling part of stellar evolution!

Disk Detective is the first NASA led and funded Zooniverse project. It is also the first NASA led and funded crowdsourcing project whose main goal is to produce publishable scientific results. It was built using seed money from NASA's Science Innovation Fund. See the White House’s second Open Government National Action Planfor more information on the U.S. federal government’s commitment to crowdsourcing and open data.

NASA LogoThis material is based upon work supported by NASA under grant number NNX13AG53G. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).



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Well this sounds like fun!


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DU can help NASA: Find the Birthplace of Planets (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 OP
If this is run on a Tea Party Computer Gore1FL Feb 2014 #1
If this is run on a Tea Party Computer... defacto7 Feb 2014 #2

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
2. If this is run on a Tea Party Computer...
Sat Feb 1, 2014, 05:42 PM
Feb 2014

The results will show that all planets are flat and their stars revolve around then.

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