Get outside after midnight over the next few nights to enjoy the Perseid meteor shower, a dazzling display of comet fragments entering our atmosphere. Then, discover a comet yourself with NASA’s Sungrazer Project: sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil

If you spot auroras, you can participate in NASA science by reporting it at aurorasaurus.org For the latest aurora info, follow NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and alerts. 3/3

📣 Calling all coders, designers, storytellers, space enthusiasts, innovators, students & teachers! NASA International NASA International Space Apps Challenge Challenge registration is now open. Sign up for a local event near you or connect virtually through the universal event. spaceappschallenge.org/nasa-space-app…

Mark your calendars for the online Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon on Saturday, Sept 21, 1-4pm ET. Help gather data to advance aurora science, ask your questions to experts, and hang out with a community of aurora lovers. There will be prizes! Register: bit.ly/reportfall24

NASA’s #OpenData policies have paved the way for interested members of the public to #DoNASAScience, and two exciting new astrophysics missions have #CitizenScientists very excited to continue discovering new planets outside our solar system – exoplanets! go.nasa.gov/3X1LCLB

While most stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project volunteers recently helped discover an object moving so fast, it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space! Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4fEbBjg

Join Dark Sky Missouri founder Don Ficken and NASA’s Eclipse Soundscapes team this Wednesday at 3pm ET to learn how devices used to record sound during the April 2024 total solar eclipse can now be used to do more #CitizenScience. Learn more & register: bit.ly/3WJaLZT

Exoplanets, look out - amateur astronomers with two NASA-sponsored projects have joined forces to track you down! Talented volunteers with these projects just made a giant planetary discovery. Learn about their "warm Jupiter" and get involved: go.nasa.gov/471r2OL

New NASA #CitizenScience astronomy project: Eclipsing Binary Patrol! You can help scientists find special pairs of stars that block each other's light - a crucial contribution to the study of star formation & evolution. Get started: go.nasa.gov/47iCBkQ

📣 Calling all citizen scientists: Help spot rare, eclipsing binary stars with the new Eclipsing Binary Patrol project. Your observations could reveal cosmic secrets of star formation and evolution. NASA Citizen Science and start stellar sleuthing today: go.nasa.gov/47iCBkQ

Join us today for the latest Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign webinar, “The State of Trees – September 2024. The End of Year 6." The webinar will feature a special talk from students at the Primary School Dubovac, Croatia.” More at: bit.ly/Trees73W.

Does the aurora make sound? Observers sometimes note a crackling, rustling, whooshing, or similar noise when they watch aurora. Let’s “hear” what the Aurorasaurus #CitizenScience project has to say about this on the blog: blog.aurorasaurus.org/?p=2101

Great news! NASA’s Active Asteroids project has new data available. Help search images for comet-like tails – on asteroids! ☄️ Finding these special asteroids can teach us about the origins of water on Earth, in our solar system, and beyond. Get started: bit.ly/3ONof1p

See the aurora this summer? Gather up your photos and join the Aurorasaurus Report-A-Thon on Zoom this Saturday, 1-4pm ET. You'll help advance aurora science, talk with experts, hang out with a community of aurora lovers, and maybe win a prize! Register: bit.ly/4gkWjQJ

Amateur planet chasers – including one retired dentist! – teamed up with NASA scientists to measure the most precise physical and orbital parameters to date for an important planet, making other very important predictions possible! Learn more: go.nasa.gov/47wr15o

What will remain of our solar system in a few billion years? With NASA’s brand new Exoasteroids #CitizenScience project, you can help scientists discover the answer as you join the search for remnants of disassembled planetary systems. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4dj82ga

What will remain of our solar system billions of years from now? Join the Exoasteroids NASA Citizen Science project and help us search for white dwarfs that are disassembling planetary systems! No experience needed—just a phone or laptop! 🌍💻 Get involved: go.nasa.gov/3TGCR7n

Hey Jupiter-lovers! Join NASA’s Night Sky Network online at 9pm ET today to learn about Jupiter’s moon Europa and Europa Clipper: NASA's first mission to an ocean world and what it will investigate upon arrival in 2030. Explore events from NASA Science: science.nasa.gov/learn/events-a…