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Through a recently launched website called Planet Patrol, NASA calls on astronomy fans to find exoplanets.
The objective is to review a collection of images marked with stars compiled by the Transiting exoplanet reconnaissance satellite (TESS) from NASA.
TESS
While computers are effective at studying these data sets, they are far from perfect. Even the most carefully crafted algorithms can fail when a planet's signal is weak. And that's where the competition of the human mind comes in..
The volunteers of Planet Patrol They will help discover such worlds and help scientists understand how planetary systems form and evolve throughout the universe.
To do this, volunteers They must answer a set of questions for each of the images, such as whether it contains multiple bright sources or whether it resembles stray light, rather than starlight.
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Located 70 million light years away, images from the Hubble telescope have been gathered in a starburst movie that disappears in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. Specifically, supernova SN 2018gv.
Hubble astronomers were using the supernova as part of a program to precisely measure the expansion rate of the universe.
SN 2018gv
Over the past 30 years, Hubble has helped dramatically improve the accuracy of the universe's expansion rate, and can also provide us with spectacular images.
The time-lapse that you can see below covers almost a year. According to the Nobel Prize Adam Riess from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland:
No terrestrial fireworks display can compete with this supernova, captured in its faded glory by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The type of supernova seen in this sequence originated from a consumed star, a white dwarf located in a nearby binary system.
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This spectacular 'time-lapse' of a supernova exists thanks to Hubble
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