{"id":721399,"date":"2010-04-21T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=14404"},"modified":"2010-04-21T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:15:18","slug":"science-for-citizens-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721399","title":{"rendered":"Science for Citizens | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/ScienceForCitizens.net\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/scienceforcitizens.jpg?resize=384%2C43\" alt=\"scienceforcitizens\" title=\"scienceforcitizens\" width=\"384\" height=\"43\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14431\"\/><\/a>My pal Darlene Cavalier from <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecheerleader.com\/\">Science Cheerleader<\/a> twigged me on to a project she&#8217;s helped develop: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/ScienceForCitizens.net\">Science for Citizens<\/a>, a collection of websites for projects where citizens &#8212; that&#8217;s you! &#8212; can help do science. There are a lot of interesting projects there, from using Hubble to bird watching.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of familiar ones there &#8212; Stardust@Home, for example &#8212; as well as educational projects for kids and older students. It&#8217;s a treasure trove of ideas! I&#8217;m a big fan of citizen science, in fact. Amateur astronomy has and probably always will be an important aspect of astronomy, since there is a vast amount of excellent science that can be done with smaller, personal observatories. Lots of other fields of science are figuring this out as well, so you should take a look and see if anything there captures your interest. There&#8217;s something there for pretty much everyone. <\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AXM9Pw6UzYnAgwy2EzBSXvK42bE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AXM9Pw6UzYnAgwy2EzBSXvK42bE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AXM9Pw6UzYnAgwy2EzBSXvK42bE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/AXM9Pw6UzYnAgwy2EzBSXvK42bE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/lpvrRLu7LxI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/6UB31yz-gg0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal Darlene Cavalier from Science Cheerleader twigged me on to a project she&#8217;s helped develop: Science for Citizens, a collection of websites for projects where citizens &#8212; that&#8217;s you! &#8212; can help do science. There are a lot of interesting projects there, from using Hubble to bird watching. There are a lot of familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31Ft","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}