Calling all citizen scientists, Planet Patrol wants you. NASA, SETI, the Space Science Telescope Institute and Zooniverse collaborated to launch Planet Patrol, a website urging citizen scientists to help find exoplanets. Planet Patrol site explains –
“NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission will take pictures of more than a million stars to search for planets orbiting them, called ‘transiting exoplanets.’ We expect this mission will see thousands of these transiting exoplanets when they pass in front of nearby stars and periodically block some of the starlight.
But sometimes when a star dims like that, it’s not because of a planet. Variable stars, eclipsing binary stars, blended stars, glitches in the data, etc., can cause a similar effect. We need your help to spot these imposters!
At Planet Patrol, you’ll help us check the data from the TESS mission, one image at a time, to make sure that objects we suspect are planets REALLY are planets.”
In a nutshell – anyone with a little spare time, set of fresh eyes and impetus to participate in cosmic discovery can be a citizen scientist. How cool would it be to identify a exoplanet? Check out the link below –
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/planet-patrol/

Read https://earthsky.org/space/exoplanets-nasas-planet-patrol-citizen-science?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=40df63514c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-40df63514c-393970565 for more details. To date 3,968 citizen scientists are on board. What are you waiting for?
If you discover a planet, will they let you name it? I’m tired of scientists giving all the planets boring names like WTF-874666-14/b. And it might be fun to imagine colonists from Earth centuries from now, settling the distant planet Fucktrump.
😆 Love it. But Infidel, planet Fucktrump can only be a Dwarf planet! And it should probably be classified as a methane gaseous Dwarf planet! 😛
Methane gaseous? It will be a planet with an atmosphere of hamburger fart, continents of shit, and oceans of hooker piss. And the only native life will be very, very small mushrooms.
Oceans of hooker piss please, I know they’re out there. I’m convinced to this day that Russia’s hold on Trump stems from golden showers in a Moscow hotel room.
I suspect should such a planet have this name then the only inhabitant would likely be an urn with Trump’s ashes!
Sidebar for Ark, know you’ll like this –
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_828bb53e-09ad-11eb-9c98-fbed3af1d69a.html
Ha ha! Hilarious.
Bonking for God!
Can’t wait for the video to appear on Youtube!
They burned the alter! WTF? Like that makes everything rosy!
When I read about the toys I nearly lost my coffee!
My missus wanted to know what the fuss was about.
I blamed you!
Hey, not my fault, I don’t make the rules. 🙂
Agreed. But a small trigger warning would have helped.
Such as: Ark. Put down you coffee before reading this!
My bad. Thought prefacing with “for your reading pleasure” rang all the bells. Besides, where’s the fun in spoiler alerts? Half the fun is independently arriving at the punch line. Hugs.
Perhaps I should sign on … I wouldn’t mind leaving Planet Earth for a few decades!!!
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Oops, just realized you were commenting on my post. 🙂