Sunspotter is
a Zooniverse citizen science project in
which participants ” help to organize
sunspot images in order of complexity to
better understand and predict how the Sun’s
magnetic activity affects us on Earth.
The Sunspotter
blog includes interesting items such
as this Space
weather – a short guide and The
Making of a Magnetogram Part I: Lost in
a Magnetic Field... Read
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I’ve recently pointed to two auctions coming
up of space memorabilia/collectibles (see
posts here and here).
Robert Pearlman finds seven in the next
three months: Spring
space sales: Space history artifacts and
astronaut mementos up for auction – collectSPACE.
See also the collectSPACE
– space history, memorabilia and artifacts
event calendar. ... Read
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Chandra Clarke explains what citizen science
is all about in this recent TEDx talk: Citizen
science explained – Citizen Science Center
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NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter contest series
will offer $35,000 in awards over the next
six months to citizen scientists who develop
improved algorithms that can be used to
identify asteroids. This contest series
is being conducted in partnership with Planetary
Resources Inc. of Bellevue, Wash... Read
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The UK Satellite
Applications Catapult organization is
hosting the CubeSat
Weekend in Oxfordshire: CubeSat Weekend:
29th-30th March 2014... Read
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The Mars
Society has selected finalists for the International
Student Design Competition for concepts
related to the proposed Inspiration
Mars Mission ... Read
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Europe approaching Mars - The European
Rover Challenge 2014, an international Mars
rover contest, will be held in Poland in
September. It will be accompanied by a Convention
attended by world class space researchers,
as well as a Science Picnic. The trio of
events is hosted together thanks to the
hospitality of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship.
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