Cultivating a sense of the galactic centre (Interconnected)
I love the idea of cultivating a sixth sense for the location of Sagittarius A.
(I bet Matt would get a kick out of Charlotte’s magnet fingers too.)
Link tags: galaxy
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Galaxy Zoo Quench
This is quite remarkable. Now that the Galaxy Zoo project from Zooniverse has successfully classified all its data (already a remarkable achievement), its volunteers are now collaborating on writing a scientific paper.
There’s something going on here. This isn’t just a “cool” or “cute” link—this is the first stirring of something entirely new that is made possible by network technology.
100,000 Stars
A gorgeous interactive visualisation of our local galactic neighbourhood.
Galaxy Zoo and the new dawn of citizen science | Science | The Observer
A lovely piece of mainstream news reporting on Galaxy Zoo and the other Zooniverse projects, and the broader role of Citizen Science.