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NASA / Zooniverse
Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors
Discover the Sun’s most extreme cosmic neighbors.
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Citizen ScienceAstronomy & Spacestarsspacebrown dwarfs_nasaastronomynasa-supportednasa-sciactresearchexoplanets
nasa-supported
within 25 miles
Aug 10, 2025
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Made possible by the NASA Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program (CSESP), the Chesapeake Water Watch is a joint project between the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the City College of New York (CCNY).
Chesapeake Water Watch (CWW)
Improve Chesapeake Bay water quality
Multiple locations, including yours!
- Ongoing
Citizen ScienceOcean Water MarineEcology & EnvironmentAstronomy & Spacenasanasa-sciactnasa-supportedsatellites_nasaestuarychesapeake bayhydrocolorwater quality monitoringcsm2025water samplesmarine science
Southwest Research Institute
Citizen CATE 2024 (Citizen Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse 2024 experiment)
Measure polarized light to understand the magnetic field & plasma in the corona
Multiple locations, including yours!
- Ongoing
Citizen ScienceAstronomy & Spaceeclipsenasa-supported_nasasolar coronatelescopecamera
Sonoma State University and University of California, Berkeley
Eclipse Megamovie
Study how the Sun’s plasma plumes and solar jets move and evolve
Multiple locations, including yours!
- Ongoing
Citizen ScienceAstronomy & Spacenasa-supportedeclipse_nasa
Zooniverse
Exoasteroids
Search for asteroids around dead stars!
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Citizen ScienceAstronomy & Spacenasa-supportedwhite dwarfasteroids
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Fjord Phyto
Monitor phytoplankton communities along the Arctic and Antarctic coast
Multiple locations, including yours!
- Ongoing
Citizen ScienceEcology & EnvironmentBiologyOcean Water Marineiaatocsm2025polarwapantarcticantarcticameltwaterantarticatourismphytoplanktonmicrobesglacial meltwaternasa-supportedicefjordphytometagenomicsmicrobegeneticsmetatranscriptomicssnowglacierswinternasa-sciact_nasafjords
NASA and The GLOBE Program
GLOBE Observer: Eclipse
Collect data about air temperature & clouds during the 2023 and 2024 eclipses.
Multiple locations, including yours!
- Ongoing
Citizen ScienceClimate & WeatherNature & OutdoorsEcology & Environmentthermometercloudsnasa-supported_nasaeclipseatmosphereair temperature
Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources; Zooniverse
Snapshot Wisconsin
Monitor wildlife in Wisconsin with trail cameras
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- Ongoing
Citizen ScienceBiologyEcology & EnvironmentAnimalsnasa-supportedtrail camerawildlife managementwildlifeelkcamera trapmonitoringdeercraneswisconsincoyotesbearswolvesbobcats
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