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    People Are Turning to Outer Space for Relief From Trump News

    When headline fatigue gets you down, why not stare at pictures of cosmic explosions?
    by Marina Koren Jun 02, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Amr Dalsh / Reuters

    Last month, in a midst of a wave on nonstop, breaking-news reports about President Donald Trump—the surprise firing of “nut job” James Comey, the divulgence of classified information to Russian officials inside the Oval Office, the apparent attempts to stymy an FBI investigation—Christine Beavers felt overloaded. She’d heard and seen and read enough news. So Beavers opened a new tab in her browser, pulled up a website that wasn’t Twitter, and started looking for supernovae.

    Beavers, a scientist at Berkeley Lab in California, signed into Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing website that allows users, known as “citizen scientists” to aid researchers by combing through photos from satellites Trump had shared sensitive information the U.S. received from an ally about ISIS. The Australian National University had published data from the SkyMapper telescope, and they wanted help among the small pinpricks of light.

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