News tagged with galaxy zoo
Galaxy Zoo Hunters Help Astronomers Discover Rare 'Green Pea' Galaxies
A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the "Green Peas" with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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'Cosmic fruit machine' matches collisions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a 'cosmic fruit machine' and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic ...
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Scientists study the 'galaxy zoo' using Google Maps and thousands of volunteers
The reddest galaxies with the largest central bulb show the largest bars -gigantic central columns of stars and dark matter-, according to a scientific study that used Google Maps to observe the sky. A group ...
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Citizen scientists making incredible discoveries
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known," wrote Carl Sagan.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2011 |
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Spiral galaxies may be dying because of bars
With the help of the army of volunteers working on the Galaxy Zoo 2 'citizen science' project an international team of scientists led by a Portsmouth astrophysicist may have discovered what is killing spiral ...
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Web users to write ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies’
(PhysOrg.com) -- Today saw the launch of Galaxy Zoo 2, a website that invites members of the public to help create a detailed guide to some of the Universe's most fascinating objects. The online project is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Galaxy Zoo reveals curious 'Violin Clef' quadruple galaxy merger
About a month ago, a Galaxy Zoo contributor named Bruno discovered a very unique galaxy merger in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. The merger appeared to be a triple, or possibly quadruple system, which ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Citizen scientists join search for Earth-like planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Web users around the globe will be able to help professional astronomers in their search for Earth-like planets thanks to a new online citizen science project called Planet Hunters that launches ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2010 |
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