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Galaxy Zoo Description: Initially to gain assistance in describing galaxies as either spiral or not. Designed to decrease telescope time wasted on non-galaxies.
Claims to be one of the best-known online citizen science projects, and with one of the largest number of publications resulting from the project
STARDIT ID:
STARDIT ID:
0202412120556
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2007-01-01
Form updated 2024-12-12
Report authors
Location
unknown - worldwide
Aims
To gain assistance classifying millions of galaxies and confirm they are spirals, to ultimately reduce valuable telescope time on those that are not spirals and hence not galaxies. Has evolved over the years to ask citizen scientists to help with other aspects of galaxy classification eg. which way do they spiral
Keywords
space
galaxy
telescope
saving time
Category
research
Inputs
organisation
Multiple organisations - see link below, and initially imaged by Sloan Digital Sky Survey (link)
Task: Initially galaxies classified as spiral or not
Method: observe photos and submit classification
Compensation: volunteer
Impact: Dramatically decreased time utilised by telescopes on non-galaxies
Outputs and impacts
dataset (open)
Stage: in first year
50,000,000 classifications in first year
Findability: https://data.galaxyzoo.org/?_ga=2.205510616.997469603.1733986568-587536742.1733986551
Impact: millions of galaxies classified
publication/report/document
State: Ongoing
Stage: thoughout
Multiple publications (link)
Stage: thoughout
Impact: enhanced understanding of the universe
Has been relaunched multiple times to enhance outcomes: Galaxy Zoo, Galaxy Zoo 2, Galaxy Zoo: Hubble, and Galaxy Zoo: CANDELS