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ZARTH - the game app that unveils the living universe from the palm of your hand

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Catching dying stars just like professional astronomers

Each night ZTF discovers on the order of 100 K transients such as supernovae, flaring stars, white dwarf binaries, active galactic nuclei and many variable stars.

As part of the ZTF outreach activities, we have developed a mobile app to engage audiences of all ages and backgrounds with astronomy and more specifically with the dymanic and ever-changing universe.

Called ZTF Augmented Reality Transient Hunter (ZARTH), the mobile app allows users to participate in a game of "finding" and "catching" various transients in the sky (think of Pokemon GO). Users can also participate in leaderboards and earn points for catching more transients.

The mobile app was developed almost entirely by students working on small research projects with members of the ZTF collaboration.