Galaxy Zoo
One of the projects that the recently completed OpenLearn course 'In the night sky : Orion' has inspired me to take a closer look at is Galaxy zoo. This is a citizen science project that everyone can get involved with.
I think the project just started out with asking people to identify galaxies from known features, e.g spiral, elliptical and help to classify objects from photos taken with Hubble and other instruments.
This is a really good project, and helps to bridge the gap between science and citizens. I spent some time last night looking at another part of this, which is to try and identify asteroids and asteroid trails, mostly from HST photos.
There are other projects on the website including
- Earthquake detection
- Muon detection
- Watching Solar Storms
- Hunting for Asteroids
It is quite challenging sometimes, trying to identify a specific item against a photo full of other objects. But then the challenge is part of the reason for doing this.
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