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Search for Planetary Nurseries in the Latest Citizen Science Project
An example image that Disk Detectives will ask the user to classify. Image Credit: diskdetectives.org
Growing up, my sister played video games and I read books. Now that she has a one-year-old daughter we constantly argue over how her little girl should spend her time. Should she read books in order to increase her vocabulary and stretch her imagination? Or should she play video games in order to strengthen her hand-eye coordination and train her mind to find patterns?
I like to believe that I did so well in school because of my initial unadorned love for books. But I might be about to lose that argument as gamers prove their value in science and more specifically astronomy.
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© Shannon Hall for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Post tags: Astronomy, citizen science projects, debris disks, Disc Detectives, Extrasolar Planets, Zooniverse
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