Citizen Science Program: Exoasteroids

Calling all volunteers! The Exoasteroids citizen science project — launched by NSF NOIRLab — needs your help in identifying asteroids orbiting distant white dwarf stars. The dusty disks that surround some white dwarfs are excellent laboratories for studying the end stage of planetary systems, providing unique information about the formation and death of planets.

Search through images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in the hunt for white dwarfs that appear to change in brightness, indicating that it may be the remnant of a planetary system still actively destroying its lingering exoasteroids.

Read more on the Zooniverse site and our announcement.