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On July 2020, our “Condo Administrator” was tested with his thesis entitled “Citizen Science: public engagement in astronomy research and dissemination”. The mains members of the PhD Juri were Dr. João Manuel Fernandes and Dr. Pedro Russo. The Jury, chaired by Dr. António Porto, also included Dr. Paulo Simeão and Dra. Carla Morais (thesis supervisor).
After almost three hours of fruitful reflection on the work, the PhD degree, in Teaching and Dissemination of Sciences, was obtained.
July 2020 brought one more good news: CoAstro was validated as a citizen science project by SciStarter. This is one of the largest worldwide platforms dedicated to citizen science.
CoAstro can be seen on this platform HERE. However, for this, it had to be previously evaluated, in order to verify its relevance for citizen science.
The ESO (European Southern Observatory) Telescope captured the first ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star.
Such image originated a podcast, produced by CoAstrians from Porto Planetarium – Centro Ciência Viva. On the other hand, it enabled “our” João Faria to continue his career as a commentator: you can attest the clarity of his explanations HERE.
Over time CoAstro has been in several media news: