New Glossary: Citizen Science Efforts

The new glossary lists some of the current projects to include citizen efforts in making discoveries.

With the advent of the internet, it has become easy for people with an eagerness to feel a part of discoveries to actually contribute to projects with scientific value.  But the opportunity existed long before we all signed online.  In astronomy everyone shares the same laboratory, the sky. Astronomers with Ph.Ds use giant telescopes to look at the same sky you can walk outside and look up to.  Many amateur astronomers have taken advantage of just that….

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