Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an example of citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research.
There have been 15 versions as of July 2017. Galaxy Zoo is part of the Zooniverse, a group of citizen science projects. An outcome of the project is to better determine the different aspects of objects and to separate them into classifications.
A key factor leading to the creation of the project was the problem of what has been referred to as data deluge, where research produces vast sets of information to the extent that research teams are not able to analyse and process much of it. Kevin Schawinski, previously an astrophysicist at Oxford University and co-founder of Galaxy Zoo, described the problem that led to Galaxy Zoo's creation when he was set the task of classifying the morphology of more than 900,000 galaxies by eye that had been imaged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, USA. "I classified 50,000 galaxies myself in a week, it was mind-numbing." Chris Lintott, a co-founder of the project and a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford, stated: "In many parts of science, we're not constrained by what data we can get, we're constrained by what we can do with the data we have. Citizen science is a very powerful way of solving that problem."
The Galaxy Zoo concept was inspired by others such as Stardust@home, where the public was asked by NASA to search images obtained from a mission to a comet for interstellar dust impacts. Unlike earlier internet-based citizen science projects such as SETI@home, which used spare computer processing power to analyse data (also known as distributed or volunteer computing), Stardust@home involved the active participation of human volunteers to complete the research task. In August 2014, the Stardust team reported the discovery of first potential interstellar space particles after citizen scientists had looked through more than a million images.
Cette page est générée automatiquement et peut contenir des informations qui ne sont pas correctes, complètes, à jour ou pertinentes par rapport à votre recherche. Il en va de même pour toutes les autres pages de ce site. Veillez à vérifier les informations auprès des sources officielles de l'EPFL.
Cosmology is the study of the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole. This course describes the principal themes of cosmology, as seen
from the point of view of observations.
Galaxy formation & evolution is about studying how galaxies in our Universe come into existence, how they evolve and what shapes their properties. This course describes the observational facts of gala
We present the role of particle physics in cosmology and in the description of astrophysical phenomena. We also present the methods and technologies for the observation of cosmic particles.
vignette Zooniverse est un portail de science citoyenne, extension du projet original Galaxy Zoo qui invitait les internautes à classer les galaxies. Contrairement à des projets tels que SETI@Home, ce type de projet ne demande pas simplement du temps-calcul aux internautes, mais réclame aussi leur attention : c'est l'internaute qui fait le travail.
vignette|Les galaxies petit pois du projet Galaxy Zoo vignette|Trois images de galaxies petit pois prises par le télescope spatial Hubble Une galaxie petit pois est un type de galaxie compacte bleue lumineuse qui présente un très fort taux de formation d'étoiles. Les galaxies petit pois sont nommées ainsi car elles sont de petite taille et présentaient un aspect verdâtre sur les images prises par le télescope du Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
En astronomie, la classification de Vaucouleurs est basée sur des critères morphologiques des galaxies et fut développée en 1959 par Gérard de Vaucouleurs. En 1959, Gérard de Vaucouleurs révisa la classification morphologique de Hubble pour tenir compte des caractéristiques plus subtiles dans la structure des galaxies, notamment pour les galaxies spirales et lenticulaires. Il a remarqué que la classification à deux branches de Hubble, basée sur l'enroulement plus ou moins serré des bras (les lettres a, b et c) et sur la présence d'une barre (SB) ou son absence (S), ne décrit pas adéquatement toute la gamme des formes des galaxies observées.
Be captivated by the exotic objects that populate the Radio Sky and gain a solid understanding of their physics and the fundamental techniques we use to observe them.
Ce cours décrit les principaux concepts physiques utilisés en astrophysique. Il est proposé à l'EPFL aux étudiants de 2eme année de Bachelor en physique.
Ce cours décrit les principaux concepts physiques utilisés en astrophysique. Il est proposé à l'EPFL aux étudiants de 2eme année de Bachelor en physique.
Explore la distribution 3D des galaxies, des amas de galaxies et de l'arrière-plan cosmique des micro-ondes, éclairant les contenus et les propriétés de l'univers observable.
We present an end-to-end description of the formation of globular clusters (GCs) combining a treatment for their formation and dynamical evolution within galaxy haloes with a state-of-the-art semi-analytic simulation of galaxy formation. Our approach allow ...
We investigate the fueling mechanisms of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) by analyzing 10 zoom-in cosmological simulations of massive galaxies, with stellar masses 1011-12 M circle dot and SMBH masses 108.9-9.7 M circle dot at z = 0, featuring various majo ...
Bristol2024
, ,
The distribution of mass in galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses is often modelled as an elliptical power-law plus 'external shear', which notionally accounts for neighbouring galaxies and cosmic shear along our line of sight. A small amount of externa ...