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#CrowdCloudLIVE After each episode's WORLD premiere in April, show host, producer, and people seen on the show participated in post-premiere roundtable discussions. Viewers like you listened in, asked questions, and were able to dive deeper into the power of Citizen Science.

Watch the recorded Facebook Live events now. Discover more about how Citizen Science is revolutionizing the ways we gather, analyze, and utilize the data that fuels scientific research, discovery, and community action.

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Stardust @Home
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Identify interstellar dust particles from the Stardust spacecraft.

On January 15, 2006, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft’s sample return capsule returned to Earth carrying particles collected during its encounter with a comet. The tiny particles were interstellar dust that originated in distant stars, light-years away, the first of their kind ever collected from space. They aren’t easy to find though, so scientists enlisted volunteers through Stardust@Home to identify them. So far only 4 have been found making them very rare and precious. Without the help of citizen scientists, this work could not be accomplished within a reasonable time frame (we’re talking over two decades!). Scientists needed volunteers to search their images taken with an automated scanning microscope to find the elusive interstellar particles. The cool part is, if you find one, you get to be a co-author on a scientific paper announcing the discovery. If you don’t find one but you work really, really hard they’ll invite you to the Berkeley lab for a special tour! Now Stardust@Home researchers Andy Westphal and Robert Lettieri are contributing lessons learned during their project to help launch EyesOnALZ.

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/