In case you missed it: On Wednesday, our distributed volunteer computing project @einsteinathome turned 20 years old 🥳🎉
We have compiled the highlights from the last two decades for you.
1️⃣ as a piece on our homepage: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1226437/happy-20th-birthday-einstein-home
2️⃣ as a thread here on Mastodon 🧵 https://astrodon.social/@mpi_grav/114029731580162213
#20YearsOfEinsteinAtHome #CitizenScience #DistributedComputing #NeutronStars #GravitationalWaves #Pulsars #ICYMI
Happy 20th birthday, Einstein@Home!
The volunteer distributed computing project Einstein@Home celebrates its 20th birthday. Einstein@Home is one of the world’s largest volunteer computing projects and a scientific success story: It has discovered more than 90 new neutron stars, some of them very unusual, through their radio and gamma-ray pulsations. It is also conducting some of the most sensitive searches for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in LIGO data. Finding the elusive waves would provide a new astronomical tool for studying extreme gravity and matter and fundamental physics.



