Citizen science and data analysis lead from NASA Science; eligibility, timing, and fit require current official verification.
No application or relationship exists. This record does not establish eligibility, availability, funding, recommendation, provider interest, or authorization to apply.
Provider
NASA Science
Kind
Citizen science and data analysis
Status
active; ongoing
Timing
Ongoing online or outdoor citizen-science project. NASA's page was last updated June 25, 2026 and publishes a current checklist, data-checkout route, tutorials, software, community, and result-upload workflow.
Eligibility
NASA states that no prior knowledge is required, a web-connected device is sufficient to start, and the online training takes approximately two to four minutes. Participants may use their own telescope or request robotic-telescope data.
Access notes
The work uses free EXOTIC software to analyze transit observations. Joining Slack, requesting data, downloading or executing software, creating accounts, uploading results to the AAVSO database, and public attribution are distinct actions with their own privacy, security, data-quality, licensing, and community consequences. The route is relevant to target-characterization literacy, not evidence that any destination is habitable.
Official link checked
2026-07-26
Relationship
indexed only; no formal relationship
Potential fit and evidence boundary
Target-characterization literacy, reproducible data analysis, uncertainty, and public science
Evidence boundary: NASA's official Exoplanet Watch page supports the ongoing project, no-telescope data-checkout path, robotic-telescope option, free EXOTIC software, two-to-four-minute training estimate, web-device requirement, no-prior-knowledge statement, upload route, and community channels. It does not establish a participant's result quality, software security, account or privacy terms, acceptance, authorship, discovery, target habitability, or NASA affiliation.
The open citizen-science route provides low-barrier practice in transit data, reproducibility, uncertainty, and target-characterization literacy without establishing destination habitability or NASA affiliation.
Required artifact: A locally reproducible sample analysis with observation, model, inference, uncertainty, software provenance, data quality, and external-account boundaries kept explicit.
Action status: proposed; not undertaken
Proposed founder action—not undertaken
Use the public checklist and tutorial to define a reproducible beginner analysis and data-quality ledger before joining a community or uploading results. Keep observation, model, inference, and habitability interpretation separate; seek separate authorization before creating external accounts, joining Slack, requesting nonpublic access, or publishing under the GShips name.
Conflicts and change triggers
Conflicts: Public attribution, software and data provenance, novice analysis quality, NASA name proximity, community accounts, and the project's target-characterization narrative require careful review.
What would change this record? A changed project status, checklist, training, data-access, software, upload, privacy, licensing, or community rule—or a completed reproducible analysis with independent quality review—would change this assessment.
NASA's official Exoplanet Watch page supports the ongoing project, no-telescope data-checkout path, robotic-telescope option, free EXOTIC software, two-to-four-minute training estimate, web-device requirement, no-prior-knowledge statement, upload route, and community channels. It does not establish a participant's result quality, software security, account or privacy terms, acceptance, authorship, discovery, target habitability, or NASA affiliation.
Indexing and task matching do not establish eligibility, recommendation, availability, funding, provider interest, a relationship, or authorization to apply.
What would change this page?
A changed project status, checklist, training, data-access, software, upload, privacy, licensing, or community rule—or a completed reproducible analysis with independent quality review—would change this assessment.
Public attribution, software and data provenance, novice analysis quality, NASA name proximity, community accounts, and the project's target-characterization narrative require careful review.
The maintainer intends to explore a commercial venture based on some GShips work. No entity, outside funding, customer, sponsor, or indexed-organization relationship currently exists.