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Planet Hunters |
This site allows you to participate in the exploration of stars to determine
if a particular star has a planet orbiting it.
The technique of light intensity analysis (photometry) over time is used to find these planets.
A full tutorial and video teach you how to search for exoplanets,
and if you are the first one to discover one, you will be invited to co-author a
research paper documenting the discovery of the planet.
You will analyze data from the Kepler telescope.
This is an exceptional site and you will learn quite a lot about exoplanets
and how to detect them, and will be able to analyze data yourself to contribute
to the planet hunting effort. |
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Galaxy Classification |
This site teaches you about the classification of galaxies and presents data
and images from the Hubble Space telescope.
You can participate in the research by learning how to classify galaxies
and then applying your knowledge to real images from Hubble.
Your classifications will help complete the research on the millions of
galaxies imaged by Hubble.
This site will help you learn about galaxies and their structures,
and your contributions to the research will be valuable in the continuing
study of galaxies at several major universities. |
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Moon Structure Classification |
This site teaches you about the structures of the Moon as well as
crater classification, boulder classification, and geological structure
classification and analysis.
Through various tutorials and videos you will learn all about the moon
and its various geological structures.
You will then have the opportunity to examine images of the moon’s
surface and classify the structures in the image based on your newly
acquired knowledge.
Your research will help with the classification of the Moon’s surface
down to individual boulders and craters, as well as cracks, ridges,
channels and other lunar features. |
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Solar Storm Watch |
This exciting site is the Royal Observatory of Greenwich’s solar
storm science site, that allows you to learn about the science of solar
storms and participate in the classification and research in the
area of solar events.
The site provides tutorials and an opportunity to use your knowledge
to participate in storm observation and tracking.
This is a great site to participate in solar research. |
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Stardust Analysis |
This site allows you to participate in the research of stardust.
Your will learn, through tutorials (and a test at the end),
to classify stardust from video and single images of the stardust
collected by the Stardust spacecraft from Comet Wild in 2004.
Your research will contribute to the body of knowledge on
interstellar stardust found throughout the galaxy. |
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Global Telescope Network |
This site allows you to participate in research by analyzing
the images from various telescopes across the globe.
Through tutorials and software which you can download,
you will be able to participate in complex scientific research
and explore real life images to support various research programs
such as those from NASA.
This research is a little more demanding than most of the research
on the other sites, but if you are into hard core scientific
astronomical research, this site is for you. |
Research in astronomy can be a computationally expensive endeavor.
In order to extract meaningful information from raw data,
astronomers must crunch tremendous amounts of data,
which requires an immense amount of computational power.
Through several online distributed computing astronomy research project sites,
you can learn how to become a part of the distributed research community and
can take part in the research by allowing your computer to be used
when you are not using it.