High-Level Project Summary
Provide a simple tool for users to have and understand easily what stellar variability means, and also what can we do with that info. It's a website, very easy to use and accessible. This will make a lot of people have it in their reach and digestible. It helps to solve a really annoying problem of looking through a bunch of info that is hard to even read. With this, you will know what stellar variability means without issuesIt helps to understand what happens beyond our eyes, so when it can reach us we can tell exactly what is going on. Maybe a planet just passes by a star and we just realized it exists because it interrupted the light to our satellite, that is a way to use this info.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Gathers useful information to understand in the most basic way what stellar variability is, how it happens, what this means, and how we take advantage of that.
Is a very simple website that just has info on multiple NASA-related (recourses) sites. This is a way to get an easier time learning about it, saves you the grind we had to put ourselves through and you will see the "bigger picture" a little bit more clearly.
We hope to help people get to know how truly amazing this really boring-sounding topic is and give out a hand to everybody to have a better time catching up to it.
Finally, we used google sites. Simple, very easy to use, and gets the job we want to be done, done
Space Agency Data
Hackathon Journey
Diego:
Very fulfilling experience, I didn't know what to expect from it; I've never been in something like this, and I loved the grind, the people, and where it took place.
I learned more about taking a subject and tearing it apart, also how to look for legit information.
I didn't choose my challenge, however, I loved it after I understood it and I'm glad I had the opportunity
We just tackled our way through it hehe, our approach was "Make it simple"
To keep moving we talked about our thoughts and how we felt about it until we agreed on it, took some time but it worked.
I'm really grateful to our mentors, really helped us to get unstuck.
Alejandro:
My experience in this hackathon was very good really I didn't have like a clear thing in my mind about what was going to happen but it became a nice surprise, everyone was kind and knew a lot about science so I could talk to them, enjoy and learn I hope the judges like our work even we joined a lot later in the project we put a lot of effort in this so I think anything happens it is okay
SarahÃ:
I love looking at the night sky and being able to get into this challenge is really good for me. My experience in the Hackathon has been very interesting, the activities that we have done such as looking through telescopes has been a truly unique experience. For me the fact of having participated is a great gain, whether I win or not I feel satisfied for having dared to participate.
References
https://www.nationalgeographic.es/espacio/supernova (Image of a supernova)
https://sites.google.com/ (Main tool for the development of our website)
https://www.aavso.org/recurrent-novae-review (Images of recurrent novae and novae)
https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/la-expansion-del-universo-fenomeno-por-determinar/ (Expansion of the universe image)