Citizen Science Program: Active Asteroids – Dark Energy Camera

The Active Asteroids citizen science project, launched in 2021, combines NOIRLab’s vast, public archive of Dark Energy Camera (DECam) data with extensive visual image inspection campaigns by online volunteers to discover new cases of asteroids displaying comet-like activity.

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NOIRLab

About the Citizen Science Program

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Release date:April 10, 2024, 11:49 a.m.

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