[NASA] Find Exoasteroids and Peek into the Future

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What will remain of our solar system a few billion years from now?  We’re launching the

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to gather some clues. Join this new citizen science project, and help search for variable white dwarfs – bizarre objects that we can catch in the act of disassembling planetary systems.

White dwarfs each pack the mass of a star into a ball the size of a planet. They are also the future of our solar system.  A few billion years from now, the Sun will evolve into a red giant and then into a white dwarf, devouring the innermost planets and millions of asteroids in the process.

With the

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you’ll search for white dwarfs that are growing brighter or dimmer.  Such white dwarfs may be remnants of planetary systems still actively munching on asteroids, leading to outbursts detectable in images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.

Help us find planetary ******** and disintegrating asteroids in other solar systems!

Anyone with a laptop or cell phone can participate. Participation does not require citizenship in any particular country.

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