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Disk Detective

Disk Detective is the first NASA-led and funded-collaboration project with Zooniverse. It is NASA's largest crowdsourcing citizen science project aiming at engaging the general public in search of stars, which are surrounded by dust-rich circumstellar disks, where planets usually dwell and are formed. Initially launched by NASA Citizen Science Officer…

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Available in
English, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Portuguese
Commercial
No
Created by
Disk Detective Team
Current status
Online
Launched
31 January 2014; 12 years ago (2014-01-31)
Registration
Optional

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Disk Detective

Nodes76
Edges75
Triples76
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026316
Components1

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Disk Detective

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related to Details · 20
Disk Detective → Australia's SkyMapper, Digitized Sky Survey, DSS, Explorer, In April, January, May, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey, Pan-STARRS, Panoramic Survey Telescope, Rapid Response System, SDSS, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Survey, The, Two Micron All Sky, Version, WISE, Zooniverse, Zooniverse's
related to Discoveries · 16
Disk Detective → All, American Astronomical Society, At, Be, Carina, Centaurus, Columba, HD, Peter Pan, Scorpius, The, The Disk Detective, Three, Together, WISE J080822, WISEA J164540
has application · 11
Disk Detective → AllWISE, Dupont/Retrocam, From, It, MAST, Mikulski Archive, Out, Robo-AO, SED, Space Telescopes, The
related to Classification · 10
Disk Detective → At, DDOI, Each, Pan-STARRS, Particular, SkyMapper, The, Website, WISE, Zooniverse
related to Advanced user group · 6
Disk Detective → Advanced, Galaxy Zoo, Peas Corps, This, Volunteers, Zooniverse
related to External links · 4
Disk Detective → Detective, Detective Facebook, Detective Twitter, NASA's Disk Detective
Available in · 1
Disk Detective → English, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Portuguese
Commercial · 1
Disk Detective → No
Created by · 1
Disk Detective → Disk Detective Team
Current status · 1
Disk Detective → Online

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disk project detective candidates disks images group found objects science wise also citizen zooniverse stars new website first nasa's circumstellar

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Disk DetectiveAvailable inEnglish, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Portuguese1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveCommercialNo1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveCreated byDisk Detective Team1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveCurrent statusOnline1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveLaunched31 January 2014; 12 years ago (2014-01-31)1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveRegistrationOptional1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveType of siteCitizen science project1.00infobox
Disk DetectiveURLwww.diskdetective.org1.00infobox
Disk Detectiveis afirst NASA-led and funded-collaboration project with Zooniverse0.90text
Disk Detectivehas applicationThe0.60section
Disk Detectivehas applicationAllWISE0.60section
Disk Detectivehas applicationOut0.60section

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