Marc Kuchner | Author
@marckuchner.bsky.social
Dad. Author of the Cosmic Collisions books. Astrophysicist and Participatory Science fanatic @nasa. www.marckuchner.com
The Arietids meteor shower… catch it on FM radio! #astronomy #science
Actual question from my 9yo: “What’s the difference between Baptists and dentists?”
The Dutch Research Council has put out a call for citizen science proposals. www.nwo.nl/en/calls/nwa... It looks like organizations in other countries are invited to apply. #scienceathome #communityscience #participatoryscience
NWA Citizen Science 2026 | NWO
With this Call for Proposals, NWO aims to strengthen collaboration between citizens and researchers within the Routes of the National Research Agenda. Through this instrument, NWO aims to offer engage...
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A meteorite found in the Sahara desert seems to have been formed at high pressure inside a giant protoplanet. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #nature #news
News flash! Elliptical galaxy M87 will crash into spiral galaxy M88 in a few hundred million years. #astronomy #emergency #uhoh
Did you hear the meteor that exploded over Cape Cod Bay on Saturday afternoon? #boston #nature #science #astronomy
Remembering Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, NASA citizen science pioneer. www.psi.edu/blog/remembe...
I’m doing a New Bedford Science Cafe! Join me June 2, 6-8pm at the Last Round Bar and Grille, 908 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA and let me tell you about 40 ways you can do NASA science. newbedfordsciencecafe.weebly.com #citizenscience
NB SCIENCE CAFE
New Bedford Science Café is usually held on the first or second Tuesday of each month from 6-8 pm at Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Help locate star-forming regions in distant galaxies! Join Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II. All you need is a smartphone or laptop. science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #news #astrophotography #nature #science #astronomy #stem
Want to work with some real Webb telescope data on exoplanets? Try this data challenge! www.kaggle.com/competitions... #python #astronomy #science #astrophotography
Join NASA’s new Shock Detectives project and help scientists understand space weather! science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #nature #citizenscience #astronomy
Tomorrow, May 20, 2026, 3:30 PM ET, join the authors of the new Computing Community Consortium report, "Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research," for a 45-min chat on AI & Cit Sci. I have a 5-minute cameo! Register here: cra-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Advanced Computing and Citizen Science for Accelerated Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmatio...
Join the authors of the recently released CCC report,
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“Dad you don’t need to lock your bike as long as you take your helmet with you. No one can steal it because they can’t ride away without a helmet.” -my 9-year old.
Megan Grace Li explains how volunteers and AI are working together to Do NASA Science. She leads the Are We Alone in the Universe project! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbe0... #citizenscience #SETI #Technosignatures #Extraterrestrial
AI at NASA: Unlocking the Future of Exploration
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Amateurs have now discovered half of the known brown dwarfs. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astronomy #science #news @raminskibba.bsky.social @philplait.bsky.social @drkeithsmith.bsky.social @nadiadrake.bsky.social @astrobites.bsky.social @ladyastrojenny.bsky.social @lizlandau.bsky.social
NASA Volunteers Double Known Population of Brown Dwarfs - NASA Science
A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 yea...
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How can you get involved in writing a scientific paper through NASA citizen science? 650+ members of the public have co-authored refereed scientific papers via NASA volunteer work. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astrophotography #nature #astronomy #research #AcademicSky #scicomm
650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers - NASA Science
After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects
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Bees die after they sting you, right? Not so fast! #insects #science #nature #biology #entomology
Cinco maneras de explorar el cosmos junto a la NASA ciencia.nasa.gov/sistema-sola... #Español #Spanish #Science #Scicomm
Cinco maneras de explorar el cosmos junto a la NASA - NASA Ciencia
Colaborar con la NASA es más fácil de lo que imaginas. Descubre herramientas, programas y recursos que te conectan con el espacio desde donde sea que estés.
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Congratulation to NASA’s partner @zooniverse.bsky.social for signing up their 3 millionth volunteer to do #citizenscience! Zooniverse hosts 19 ongoing NASA projects. blog.zooniverse.org/2026/04/21/3... #astronomy #earth #scicomm
3 million volunteers!
Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From classifying galaxies and discoveri…
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Want to help humans travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond? Here are four ways you can work with NASA right now. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astronomy #biology #hamradio #scienceathome #citizenscience
You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space - NASA Science
The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an imp...
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Why were amateur astronomers pointing their telescopes at the Moon during Artemis II? The answer has to do with meteors and moonquakes. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astrophotography #scicomm #news #citizenscience #astro
Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes - NASA Science
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded I...
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Do NASA Science on a Zoom call with scientists and maybe discover a comet! April 29, 6pm and 9pm ET. pages.scistarter.org/nasa-live/ #astronomy #citizenscience #astrophotography
Maybe Cheez Whiz wasn’t invented @rutgersu.bsky.social but streptomycin was! #science #newjersey
You can get the Cosmic Collisions books for your kids at mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9798855... #kidlit #science #bookstore #writingcommunity #stem #scicomm
Holy cow! NASA’s partner @SciStarter is reporting 2.5 million acts of science done by volunteers in April!
Just 22 days into April, you made it happen. In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, we set an ambitious goal of 2.50 Million Acts of Science for Citizen Science Month, and citizen scientists around the world didn’t just meet it. You surpassed it. Learn more: citizensciencemonth.org
It’s Massachusetts Space week! I will be at the career fair Wednesday night 5:15 to 6:30 at the MIT Kavli center for astrophysics. Come hang out! #boston #events #astronomy