Disk Detective
Type of site | Citizen science project |
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| Available in | English, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Portuguese |
| Created by | Disk Detective Team |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 31 January 2014 |
| Current status | Online |
Disk Detective is the first NASA-led and funded-collaboration project with Zooniverse. It is NASA's largest crowdsourcing citizen science project aiming at engaging the general public in search of stars, which are surrounded by dust-rich circumstellar disks, where planets usually dwell and are formed. Initially launched by NASA Citizen Science Officer, Marc Kuchner, the principal investigation of the project was turned over to Steven Silverberg.