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Saturday Status – Sunspotter
Since the full launch of the Sunspotter project just over three weeks ago almost one million classifications have been done by thousands of our amazing volunteers! Join them today at...
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Saturday Suggestion – Solar Stormwatch
If you haven’t already tried out Solar Stormwatch then what’s wrong with you?! It’s one of our longest running projects and involves looking for huge eruptions from the Surface of the Sun (coronal...
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The Comet & the Coronal Mass Ejection
Click for video Have a look at this amazing footage from Solar Stormwatch of comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) being bombarded by a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun last March! Thanks to Julia...
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Saturday Status – Millions of clicks!
Thanks to the outstanding efforts of our hard-working volunteers two of our newest projects, Sunspotter and Asteroid Zoo, have already passed the one million classifications mark! A huge thanks to...
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Saturday Suggestion – Sunspotter
Sunspotter is possibly the simplest, yet one of the most addictive Zooniverse projects. All you have to do is select which out of two images of sunspot groups is the most complex. Sunspots are...
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Particle Strike
Check out this intriguing image from the STEREO telescope which provides the data for Solar Stormwatch. It was suggested to me by Jules, one of our fantastic volunteers, and here is her explanation:...
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A Movie of Consensus
This animated gif shows how the consensus of volunteer clicks on Solar Stormwatch tracks the front of a coronal mass ejection (CME) as it expands away from the surface of the Sun. You can read more...
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Saturday Status – Sunspotter
The Sunspotter project is about to break the 2 million classification barrier! Help it get there sooner by classifying some sunspot groups at www.sunspotter.org today.
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The Cosmic Peanut
One of our volunteers thinks this object looks like a peanut (Irrelevant but Fun Fact: Peanuts are not actually nuts). Jules, a moderator on the Milky Way Project, correctly identified it as...
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Solar Dandelion
This image of a sunspot group from Sunspotter bears a slight resemblance to a dandelion, or at least one of our volunteers thinks so! Get involved in the project right now at www.sunspotter.org
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Sunspotter Challenge
On Saturday last week we launch the Sunspotter Challenge. The idea was to see if we could get over 250,000 new classifications on Sunspotter in only 7 days. Well, our awesome volunteers broke...
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Zooniverse Advent: Day 3 – Solar Stormwatch II
The second incarnation of one of the Zooniverse’s oldest projects, Solar Stormwatch II launched over two months ago but still requires thousands of classifications before it’s finished. At the...
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