What’s Your Moonshot?Backyard Worlds Aims to Discover Cold New Worlds

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Newsweek is highlighting pioneers in science and technology, their moonshots, and how they hope to change the world. This week’s issue features NOAO Astronomer Aaron Meisner, who describes the inspiration behind the Backyard Worlds citizen science project he helped create and how it brings the human element back to the exploration of big data sets.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech; Inset: A. Meisner

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