SUNSET: 
Visual Observing vs. Smart Telescopes — Finding Harmony
The latest smartscope astrophotography craze opens the door to some incredible opportunities for both beginners and seasoned observers.
High School Citizen Scientists Join the Hunt for Exoplanets
A group of high school astronomy students helped confirm and characterize a planet slightly smaller than Saturn that closely orbits its star.
Citizen Scientist Wins Prestigious AAS Award
The American Astronomical Society recognized Dan Caselden’s contributions to science at their recent winter meeting.
The DEB Initiative: How Citizen Scientists Can Help Broadcast Eclipses
A citizen-science project aims to broadcast the eclipses coming up this year and next.
Citizen Scientists Detect Dusty Disks
Disk Detective, a citizen science project dedicated identifying planet-forming disks around young stars, reports their latest results.
Citizen Scientists Find 1,000+ Asteroids Photobombing Hubble Images
The combined power of citizen science and machine learning have led to the discovery of more than 1,000 new asteroids in archival images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Eclipse as Seen by Citizen Scientists
Some academic and citizen-science groups came up with neat initiatives for eclipse day. Let’s find out how they did.
Citizen Scientists Probe Early Galaxies
New data collected by Galaxy Zoo show early galaxies with central bars, providing implications about how galaxies grow.
