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The Star Hunt is the tenth project within Help a Scientist. This year the project is about space and to identify stars together with three scientists based at Chalmers.<\/h4>\n

Astronomers Dr. Giuliana\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Cosentino<\/strong>, Dr. Rub\u00e9n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Fedriani<\/strong>\u00a0and Prof. Jonathan Tan<\/strong> (Dept. of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers Univ. of Technology) have been selected for the 2020 Help a Scientist program run by the\u00a0<\/span>Nobel Prize Museum\u00a0<\/span>with the project \u201cThe Star Hunt\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>In this, the 10th edition of the Help a Scientist<\/span>\u00a0program<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>about 1 000\u00a0<\/span>participating Swedish school students<\/span>\u00a0from about 30 schools<\/span>\u00a0will be the first Star Hunters as this is the first space-astronomy project offered<\/span>\u00a0by the program<\/span>.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In the project The Star Hunt the scientists, who are astronomers, need help finding new stars that are being born from dusty\u202finterstellar clouds in our galaxy. Do these stars, especially the most massive ones, form alone, as twins or clustered together in \u202fgreat brood<\/span>s? Students will\u00a0<\/span>analyse<\/span>\u00a0images taken in a variety of wavelengths of light, from radio to x-ray, by telescopes on the \u202fground, in the air and in space. The scientists will provide a background to the research and instructions for \u202fanalysis of the images. These will be provided via the web-based\u00a0<\/span>WorldWide<\/span>\u00a0Telescope platform, which interfaces with \u202fNASA and ESA database<\/span>s. <\/span><\/p>\n

Each team of students will explore their \u202fown regions of the galaxy targeting particular interstellar clouds. The astronomers want to know about the surrounding \u202fenvironments of the clouds – for example, have they been impacted by recent supernova explosions or blasts of radiation? They \u202fwant to discover if there are clusters of stars already formed that are hidden in the dusty\u00a0<\/span>centres<\/span>\u00a0of the clouds. The results will \u202fcontribute to knowledge of the life cycle of our galaxy, especially the birth of new stars, that will also help us better \u202funderstand the origin of our own Sun and its planets.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Peter Williams (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and American Astronomical Society) who is working with the scientists to help adapt the WorldWide Telescope software for this project.<\/p>\n

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Follow the project<\/h4>\n

To get more detailed information about what the school classes in the Star Hunt will actually do to help the scientists, please the scientists’ web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_content","text_block":"

The Start Hunt start-up conference<\/h4>\n

See the start-up conference which launched our project on 11 September.<\/p>\n