Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors

You can be part of history! Use your computer to help...

Published on January 22, 2006 By ShadowWar In Personal Computing

BERKELEY – Astronomy buffs who jumped at the chance to use their home computers in the SETI@home search for intelligent life in the universe will soon be able to join an Internet-based search for dust grains originating from stars hundreds of thousands of light years away.

In a new project called Stardust@home, University of California, Berkeley, researchers will invite Internet users to help them search for a few dozen submicroscopic grains of interstellar dust captured by NASA's Stardust spacecraft and due to return to Earth in January 2006.

Go here to take part! Stardust@Home Project Link

Comments

MasonM

on Jan 22, 2006

Looks pretty cool. Since I'm going on the road I may check into this once I get a laptop.

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