In recent years, crowdfunding has become a popular method of funding new technology or entertainment products, or artistic projects. The idea is that people or projects ask for many small donations from…
Month: December 2014
Citizen Science Help Sought Locate Cities at Night From ISS Imagery
“Help us to georeference the position of cities which appear in the ISS images. We are members of the Group of Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astronomical Instrumentation from the of Universidad Coplutense de…
NASA Seeks Ultralightweight Core Materials
NASA Space Technology Game Changing Program Solicitation for Ultralightweight Core Materials for Efficient Load-Bearing Composite Sandwich Structures – NASA is seeking proposals to develop and manufacture ultralightweight materials for aerospace vehicles and…
Deadline Extended: Student Spaceflight Experiments Program
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, in partnership with NanoRacks LLC, announce an authentic science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or…
Remote Sensing of Exoplanets
“A two day long winter school on Remote Sensing of Exoplanets will be held at our University on December 4th and 5th, aimed primarily at graduate students involved in hysperspectral remote sensing…
2015 ESA App Camp
“Apply today for the 2015 ESA App Camp in Barcelona, and the opportunity to develop mobile apps that tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. This unique app development event offers access…
Crowdsourcing Helps Discover 49th Radio pulsar: PSR J1910+07
“Einstein@Home currently processes PALFA Mock spectrometer data from Arecibo Observatory. This search run is called “BRP4” (short for Binary Radio Pulsar search #4). It uses the computing power donated by volunteers from…
DIY Exoplanet Detector
“I discovered that one amateur astronomer had already posted online about how he had detected a known exoplanet using a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera outfitted with a telephoto lens. He was…