Astronomy buffs asked to aid new EU research project

Amateur astronomers across Europe can now join a new citizen science project to classify variable stars using images captured with the Gaia Space Telescope.

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The Gaia Vari project was recently launched by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Your help is needed! Join the GaiaVari citizen science project and help building the biggest variable catalogue of the whole sky ever created! More info: https://t.co/H2749aYnPP
Join @GaiaVari on @the_zooniverse : https://t.co/jDQ5f3CWRJhttps://t.co/wvcNkJotQ0

— ESA Gaia (@ESAGaia) March 21, 2023

“Rather than admiring picturesque images from a space telescope, this project is about studying data or spots in graphs from the telescope showing changes in objects such as stars,” said Milena Ratajczak, an astronomer at the University of Warsaw.

This year marks the 550th anniversary of the birth of the great Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Michał Owczarek has the story.

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