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How To Crowdsource Astronomy Without People Messing It Up

April 9, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Maybe it’s because Jurassic Park is in theaters again, but we at Universe Today sometimes worry about how one person can mess up an otherwise technologically amazing system. It took just one nefarious employee to shut down the dinosaur park’s security [...]

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Wishing the Zooniverse a Happy 5th Birthday!

July 5, 2012

Galaxy Zoo was a project set up in July 2007 by astronomers Chris Lintott and Kevin Schawinski asking members of the public to help classify a million galaxy images produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Five years on and Galaxy Zoo has grown into an entire Zooniverse of projects allowing members to contribute to [...]

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The Milky Way Galactic Disk – Forever Blowing Bubbles

February 6, 2012

Score another one for citizen science! In a study released just days ago, a new catalog containing over five thousand infrared bubble entries was added through the “Milky Way Project” website. The work was done independently by at least five participants who measured parameters for position, radius, thickness, eccentricity and position angle. Not only did [...]

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Citizen Scientist Project Finds Thousands of ‘Star Bubbles’

January 16, 2012

Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that too. The “bubbles” are partial or complete rings of dust and gas that occur around young stars in active star-forming regions, known as stellar nurseries. So far, over 5,000 bubbles have been found, but there are many more [...]

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Help Scientists Decide on Which KBOs the New Horizons Spacecraft Will Visit

June 21, 2011

How would you like to help choose an additional destination or two for a spacecraft heading to the outer solar system? A new citizen science project from the Zooniverse — called Ice Hunters — will allow the public to help discover a potential new, icy follow-on destination for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which is currently [...]

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