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Scientists Launch Eve Online Exoplanet Exploration Project

The mini game for EVE Online is called Project Discovery and allows players to help scientists on exoplanet exploration, discovering planets outside our solar system that orbit a star.

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EVE Online has officially launched one of the most highly-anticipated and exciting mini-games of our era, named Project Discovery. Inthis mini-game, players are able to help scientists with exoplanet exploration, contributing to the progress of science.

EVE Online's creators, the indie game company CCP from Iceland, collaborated with the University of Reykjavik, the University of Geneva and the winner of 2017 Wolf Prize for Physics, Michel Mayor. Mayor is the man who discovered the first exoplanet known to mankind, Dimidium, on 6 October 1995.

Project Discovery allows EVE Online players to review astronomical data from the CoRoT telescope. Once enough players have agreed on the possibility of an exoplanet, the data will be sent to scientists at the University of Geneva, for further exoplanet exploration.

Players can access the mini-game and receive graphs, known as ‘light curves', which represent measurements of the luminosity of stars. By detecting the curves regularly, players may find previously unknown exoplanets.

The importance of exoplanet exploration

With Project Discovery, EVE Online paves the way for the to contribute to the evolution of science. With the ability for exoplanet exploration, players and science fans can combine fun with research. Research for an answer to two big questions: Where did we come from? Are we alone?

According to NASA, its exoplanet exploration program has the primary goal of discovering and characterizing planetary systems and Earth-like planets around nearby stars. Ultimately, the goal is to see whether there are exoplanets that show signs of possible life that mankind knows how to interpret.

Project Discovery instantly multiplies the number of people that are working towards that cause. Gamers from all over the world have the opportunity to offer their insight on exoplanet exploration.

Kostas Papanikolaou
Kostas Papanikolaou
Kostas is a former sports journalist and an amateur gamer. Combining his love for technology with his writing experience, he enjoys covering news about Microsoft. Being an artistic “soul”, he is also writing poems and short stories.

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