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Marc Kuchner | Author

@marckuchner.bsky.social
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Dad. Author of the Cosmic Collisions books. Astrophysicist and Participatory Science fanatic @nasa. www.marckuchner.com

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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@melina-iras07572.bsky.social Hi Melina! We'd like to include you as a coauthor on another astrophysics paper! We need an email address for that. Let me know! Your fan--Marc
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Planetary scientists: get funding to lead a #citizenscience project via NASA's SSERVI CAN-5 (NNH26ZDA016C) solicitation! $180k/year may be requested to support a Citizen Science and/or Space Apps Plan. Step 1 proposals are due Sept 29, 2026 #scicomm #astronomy nspires.nasaprs.com/external/sol...
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NSPIRES - Solicitations Summary
NASA and U.S. Government policies address research and personal misconduct, and provide avenues for reporting potential violations.
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Registration for NASA’s space apps challenge opens up tomorrow! www.spaceappschallenge.org It’s the largest hackathon in the world. #science #tech
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What’s the craziest pizza you’ve ever had? #food 
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thank you to Namai Chandra, Space Cloud Watch volunteer and creator of the Noctilucent Cloud Detector tool! science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #science #nature #photography #citizenscience
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Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds - NASA Science
Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the w...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Did you see the total solar eclipse this week? #science #sun #nature
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Want to live on Mars? The nighttime temperature is about that of dry ice. #astronomy #science 
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy July 4th from Rhode Island!
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Arietids meteor shower… catch it on FM radio! #astronomy #science
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Actual question from my 9yo: “What’s the difference between Baptists and dentists?”
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Dutch Research Council has put out a call for citizen science proposals. www.nwo.nl/en/calls/nwa... It looks like organizations in other countries are invited to apply. #scienceathome #communityscience #participatoryscience
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NWA Citizen Science 2026 | NWO
With this Call for Proposals, NWO aims to strengthen collaboration between citizens and researchers within the Routes of the National Research Agenda. Through this instrument, NWO aims to offer engage...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thanks for having me, New Bedford Science Café! newbedfordsciencecafe.weebly.com #massachusetts
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A meteorite found in the Sahara desert seems to have been formed at high pressure inside a giant protoplanet. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #nature #news
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
News flash! Elliptical galaxy M87 will crash into spiral galaxy M88 in a few hundred million years. #astronomy #emergency #uhoh
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Boston meteorite hunters, beware! #astronomy
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Did you hear the meteor that exploded over Cape Cod Bay on Saturday afternoon? #boston #nature #science #astronomy
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Remembering Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, NASA citizen science pioneer. www.psi.edu/blog/remembe...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’m doing a New Bedford Science Cafe! Join me June 2, 6-8pm at the Last Round Bar and Grille, 908 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA and let me tell you about 40 ways you can do NASA science. newbedfordsciencecafe.weebly.com #citizenscience
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NB SCIENCE CAFE
​New Bedford Science Café is usually held on the first or second Tuesday of each month from 6-8 pm  at  Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase Street  in New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Help locate star-forming regions in distant galaxies! Join Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II. All you need is a smartphone or laptop. science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #news #astrophotography #nature #science #astronomy #stem
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Want to work with some real Webb telescope data on exoplanets? Try this data challenge! www.kaggle.com/competitions... #python #astronomy #science #astrophotography
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Join NASA’s new Shock Detectives project and help scientists understand space weather! science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie... #nature #citizenscience #astronomy
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tomorrow, May 20, 2026, 3:30 PM ET, join the authors of the new Computing Community Consortium report, "Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research," for a 45-min chat on AI & Cit Sci. I have a 5-minute cameo! Register here: cra-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: A New Era of Scientific Progress: Uniting Advanced Computing and Citizen Science for Accelerated Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmatio...
Join the authors of the recently released CCC report,
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Oak catkins are all over the ground this time of year where I live! #nature #trees #science
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
“Dad you don’t need to lock your bike as long as you take your helmet with you. No one can steal it because they can’t ride away without a helmet.” -my 9-year old.
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Megan Grace Li explains how volunteers and AI are working together to Do NASA Science. She leads the Are We Alone in the Universe project! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbe0... #citizenscience #SETI #Technosignatures #Extraterrestrial
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AI at NASA: Unlocking the Future of Exploration
YouTube video by Learn With NASA
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Amateurs have now discovered half of the known brown dwarfs. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astronomy #science #news @raminskibba.bsky.social @philplait.bsky.social @drkeithsmith.bsky.social @nadiadrake.bsky.social @astrobites.bsky.social @ladyastrojenny.bsky.social @lizlandau.bsky.social
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NASA Volunteers Double Known Population of Brown Dwarfs - NASA Science
A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 yea...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How can you get involved in writing a scientific paper through NASA citizen science? 650+ members of the public have co-authored refereed scientific papers via NASA volunteer work. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astrophotography #nature #astronomy #research #AcademicSky #scicomm
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650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers - NASA Science
After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Bees die after they sting you, right? Not so fast! #insects #science #nature #biology #entomology
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Cinco maneras de explorar el cosmos junto a la NASA ciencia.nasa.gov/sistema-sola... #Español #Spanish #Science #Scicomm
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Cinco maneras de explorar el cosmos junto a la NASA   - NASA Ciencia
Colaborar con la NASA es más fácil de lo que imaginas. Descubre herramientas, programas y recursos que te conectan con el espacio desde donde sea que estés.
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congratulation to NASA’s partner @zooniverse.bsky.social for signing up their 3 millionth volunteer to do #citizenscience! Zooniverse hosts 19 ongoing NASA projects. blog.zooniverse.org/2026/04/21/3... #astronomy #earth #scicomm
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3 million volunteers!
Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From classifying galaxies and discoveri…
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Want to help humans travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond? Here are four ways you can work with NASA right now. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astronomy #biology #hamradio #scienceathome #citizenscience
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You Can Help Humans Thrive in Space - NASA Science
The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back – the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an imp...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Why were amateur astronomers pointing their telescopes at the Moon during Artemis II? The answer has to do with meteors and moonquakes. science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #astrophotography #scicomm #news #citizenscience #astro
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Volunteers Help NASA Astronauts Record Lunar Flashes - NASA Science
As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. At the same time, volunteers for the NASA-funded I...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Do NASA Science on a Zoom call with scientists and maybe discover a comet! April 29, 6pm and 9pm ET. pages.scistarter.org/nasa-live/ #astronomy #citizenscience #astrophotography
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Maybe Cheez Whiz wasn’t invented @rutgersu.bsky.social but streptomycin was! #science #newjersey
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
You can get the Cosmic Collisions books for your kids at mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9798855... #kidlit #science #bookstore #writingcommunity #stem #scicomm
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Holy cow! NASA’s partner @SciStarter is reporting 2.5 million acts of science done by volunteers in April!
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It’s Massachusetts Space week! I will be at the career fair Wednesday night 5:15 to 6:30 at the MIT Kavli center for astrophysics. Come hang out! #boston #events #astronomy
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Congratulations to the HARP citizen science team on this new discovery! science.nasa.gov/get-involved... #space #news
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Volunteers Discover Rare Space Weather Events Using Their Ears - NASA Science
Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science project approaches this in a unique ...
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Bring your kids and join scientists on a live Zoom call to spot wild animals in trail camera pics! April 22. 11am and 6pm ET. pages.scistarter.org/nasa-live/ #scienceathome #family #citizenscience #moms #dads #kids #stem Please share!
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
First results from the Exoasteroids citizen science project! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #astronomy #news
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Discovery of a New Cataclysmic Variable, GALEX J211240.9–422959, via the Exoasteroids Citizen Science Project
Discovery of a New Cataclysmic Variable, GALEX J211240.9–422959, via the Exoasteroids Citizen Science Project, Lin, Mei, Meisner, Aaron, Xu, Siyi, Sainio, Arttu, Rivera Sandoval, Liliana, Szkody, Paula, Tanner, Christopher, Rogers, Laura K., Casewell, Sarah, Humphreys, Austin, The Exoasteroids Collaboration
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@bot.astronomy.blue signup
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Congratulations to Brian Simpson from the Cincinnati Astronomical Society! A photo he took of the Moeller telescope is featured at science.nasa.gov! #astrophotography #citizenscience
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Cosmic collisions and the origin of life! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu. #astrobiology #news
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Inkfish Books, Warren, Rhode Island! #booksky #writingcommunity #kidlit
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Great shot of the zodiacal light from Artemis II! #astronomy #news
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Have a 4"+ telescope with a video recorder? The Impact Flash project urgently needs your help imaging the moon during the Artemis II mission! www.geodes.umd.edu/impactflash #astrophotography #astronomy Please share! @davidbflower.bsky.social @peterlewis55.bsky.social @joegarrity.bsky.social
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Impact Flash! - GEODES: Geophysical Exploration of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Solar System
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Librarians, April is #citizenscience month and NASA’s partner @scistarter.bsky.social has resources for you! pages.scistarter.org/citizenscien... #library #scienceathome #stem
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
There are a few slots left! Join me at Barrington library in Rhode Island April 6, 6 to 7 pm. Bring kids ages seven and up, and we will talk cosmic collisions! barringtonlibrary.libcal.com/event/15647185 #booksky #kidlit
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Looks like this comet has been caught in the act of reversing its spin… No aliens needed! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... #astronomy #astrophotography #nature #news #science #scicomm
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Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Live in the southern United States? NASA’s newest #citizenscience project needs your help deploying hail gauges! Join the fun at cocorahs.org! #science #weather #news #scienceathome #stem
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