Working for NASA can be the big dream of many people passionate about astronomy and now that dream can come true. The American agency is looking for people to help study the sky and participate in the search program for exoplanets. More than 5,000 exoplanets have already been found in the Milky Way, who knows you might find the next one!
NASA is looking for people to study exoplanets
More than 5,000 planets outside the Solar System have already been found in the Milky Way, and NASA wants to find many more, the problem is that this takes a lot of time and dedication from its professionals. Therefore, NASA decided to publish an article, which would be a kind of invitation to attract people to the Exoplanet Watch project, whose objective is, since it started, in 2018, to observe exoplanets.
In this way, NASA removed the various limitations that did not allow anyone to be part of the project, so that the program is now more accessible to those who wish to collaborate with the studies. Interested parties should access the site official.
How does the collaboration work?
Those who are part of the Exoplanet Watch program can use their own telescopes to find these exoplanets, but don’t worry, any size telescope can help support the program.
If having a telescope is not yet part of your reality, you can collaborate by analyzing the data already found by other telescopes, thus only needing a computer or smartphone.
What to analyse?
The objective of whoever analyzes this data must be to better understand how the orbits of the planets work according to the transit, without forgetting also to analyze the brightness of the stars to check if there are stellar spots or eruptions.
What are the benefits of participating?
In addition to contributing to extremely important studies about the universe, the advantages are that, even without experience, you will have the possibility of having your name as a co-author of a NASA study.
However, the bad news is that if you apply thinking about the money, you will certainly be disappointed, as NASA has opened the possibility for more people to be part of the program, but everyone must participate voluntarily.
