If you're in the path of totality, you can contribute to research about the sun.
"There are so many ways to participate in NASA science, especially as we enter the Heliophysics Big Year," space physicist Elizabeth MacDonald, the heliophysics citizen science lead at NASA, said in aTotal solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know
SunSketcher 2024 is being developed by a team of students and professors at Western Kentucky University , and is the newest of five projects to receive funding from NASA this year to collect science data from the next total solar eclipse. "Our goal is to get a bunch of people — millions of people, hopefully — in the path of the eclipse, to use our app and get a few pictures of the sun as the eclipse happens and as the eclipse ends," Starr May, a computer science major at WKU working on SunSketcher 2024,The SunSketcher 2024 app is an improvised version of an app used for a similar purpose during a, scientists say.
Pictures from all observations will ultimately be combined into an hour-long"megamovie" to better understand the sun's shape by using the moon as a reference. Specifically, the observations will reveal how much the sun deviates from being a perfect sphere, scientists say. "This information will lead to an improved understanding of the flows in the solar interior, and is also key to testing gravitational theories," NASA representatives wrote in last week's statement.
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