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The night sky above the McDonald Observatory’s Hobby-Eberly Telescope in western Texas. Since 2021, citizen scientists have searched for galaxies in the telescope’s images.
Credit: McEthan Tweedie Photography
CAREERS AND EDUCATION
To Hunt for Dark Energy, Swipe Left or Swipe Right
A citizen science initiative called Dark Energy Explorers has recruited 17,000 people to identify galaxies in telescope images.
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