"Gaia seeks amateur astronomers to classify stars"

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which has been collecting data on millions of space objects, including stars, needs the help of amateur astronomers to classify variable stars. The Gaia Vari project, a citizen science initiative, allows volunteers to analyze images and graphs to classify stars' brightness changes, colors, and other variables over time. This will help scientists organize and categorize the millions of stars Gaia has observed, leading to the next Gaia data release in 2025.