Record-Breaking Team of Citizen Scientists Contribute Data on Pinwheel Galaxy Supernova PRESS RELEASE DATE July 11, 2023 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org ONLINE Press Release/Images bit.ly/44EUZ4S A...
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Record-Breaking Team of Citizen Scientists Contribute Data on Pinwheel Galaxy Supernova PRESS RELEASE DATE July 11, 2023 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org ONLINE Press Release/Images bit.ly/44EUZ4S A before and after of the Pinwheel Galaxy, courtesy of observer and Unistellar College Astronomy Network member, Scott Kardel. View full GIF here. July 11, 2023, Mountain View, CA - In an unprecedented achievement, citizen scientists have set a new record for the SETI Institute and Unistellar, comprising the highest number of observers providing data on a single event. Amateur astronomers participating in the SETI Institute’s and Unistellar’s Cosmic Cataclysms program conducted a groundbreaking observation of supernova (SN) 2023ixf. The observations, which began just one hour after the supernova’s first known appearance, have generated the longest continuous light curve of this supernova gathered by citizen scientists that has been publish
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