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The Milky Way shines over Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, on May 25, 2020. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Bill Dunford

NASA’s citizen science projects welcome members of the public to work with NASA data. Through collaborations with NASA scientists, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. Here’s how you can work with NASA on exoplanet science:

Exoplanet Watch

Observe transiting exoplanets with small telescopes. You do not need to own your own telescope in order to participate.

Exoplanet Explorers

Discover new planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy!

Planet Hunters TESS

Search for undiscovered worlds using data from NASA’s TESS mission.

Backyard Worlds

Planet 9: Search the realm beyond Neptune for new brown dwarfs and planets.

Planet Patrol

Help find out which planet candidates from the TESS mission are real.

Disk Detective

Spot the disks around nearby stars where planets form and dwell.

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NASA offers a range of citizen science projects; some can be done by anyone, anywhere, with just a cellphone or laptop. Check out all the ways you can work on NASA science.

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NASA's Exoplanet Watch project invites you to use your smartphone or personal telescope to help track worlds outside our solar system. 

Help Discover Worlds With NASA

Brown dwarfs aren’t quite stars and aren’t quite planets, and a new study suggests there might be more of them lurking in our galaxy than scientists previously thought.

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Help NASA find exoplanets through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol.
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“The flaws are so small and have such a minor effect that we had to do over 100 iterations to get it right,” said Feng Zhao, deputy project manager for the Roman Coronagraph at JPL. “It’s kind of like when you go to see an optometrist and they put different lenses up and ask you, ‘Is this one better? How about this one?’ And the coronagraph performed even better than we’d hoped.”
During the test, the readouts from the coronagraph’s camera show a doughnut-shaped region around the central star that slowly gets darker as the team directs more starlight away from it — hence the nickname “digging the dark hole.” In space, an exoplanet lurking in this dark region would slowly appear as the instrument does its work with its deformable mirrors.
This graphic shows a test of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument that engineers call “digging the dark hole.” At left, starlight leaks into the field of view when only fixed components are used. The middle and right images show more starlight being removed as the instrument’s moveable components are engaged. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Habitable Worlds
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered and confirmed around other stars in the last 30 years, but most have been detected indirectly, meaning their presence is inferred based on how they affect their parent star. Detecting these relative changes in the parent star is far easier than seeing the signal of the much fainter planet. In fact, fewer than 70 exoplanets have been directly imaged.
The planets that have been directly imaged to date aren’t like Earth: Most are much bigger, hotter, and typically farther from their stars. These features make them easier to detect but also less hospitable to life as we know it.
To look for potentially habitable worlds, scientists need to image planets that are not only billions of times dimmer than their stars, but also orbit them at the right distance for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface — a precursor for the kind of life found on Earth.
Developing the capabilities to directly image Earth-like planets will require intermediate steps like the Roman Coronagraph.
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Park interpretation seeks to protect your parks by fostering an awareness and understanding of California's state parks in an enjoyable and relevant manner.The interpreters of California State Parks welcome you to this portion of the web site. We hope that we can provide you with an enjoyable opportunity to become aware of the many interpretive activities available in California's state parks.
The six main areas of this section are described below.  Choose one of these links to find out more about interpretive activities in California's state parks.  If you need more information, please contact us through the information provided in the right-hand column of this page. 
The Park Interpretive Programs section provides information concerning what programs are available on-line and in-person.  California State Parks perform a wide variety of programs throughout the state, ranging from wildflower hikes in the desert to campfire programs in the north coast redwoods.  This section will help you discover what programs fit your needs.
The For Kids section provides Junior Ranger and Litter Getter Program information, as well as activities for kids that deal with culture and history, science and nature, and other fun topics. 
The For Schools section supplies teachers with information concerning park field trips provides materials for the classroom, supplies downloadable teachers guides, and offers lesson plans relating park information with California Academic Content Standards.
The PORTS  (Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students)web site is designed to further the mission of California State Parks and to augment the teaching of academic content standards in California's public schools.  PORTS uses California's K-12 High-Speed Network (HSN) to deliver units of study to classrooms around the state.
The How You Can Help section is where you can learn about park volunteers, cooperating associations and supporting organizations.  Volunteers are essential and perform myriad functions in today's parks.  Cooperating associations raise the funds that make many interpretive and educational programs possible and work in many ways to support the mission of California State Parks.
The Resources and Tools section is where we share resources with park staff and with other interpreters around the world. Our informational inserts for park visitors, training schedules, manuals, professional papers, interpretive newsletters, equipment.

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