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#CitizenScientists pinpoint 10,000 eclipsing #star pairs
#NASA is still looking for #volunteer stargazers to help with the #astronomy effort
#Ctizenscience project in question, the #EclipsingBinaryPatrol, validates images from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. Researchers identified 1.2 million potential eclipsing star pairs. Citizen scientists validated a subset of about 60,000... manually inspecting 100,000s of images.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/07/06/citizen-scientist-binary-stars-astronomy/
https://archive.ph/NwV7b