Zooniverse – Astronomy Now

Citizen scientists discover huge Matorny-Terentev galaxy cluster

14 June 2016 Astronomy Now

Two volunteer participants in an international citizen science project, T. Matorney and I. A. Terentev, have had a rare galaxy cluster that they found named after them. The pair pieced together the huge C-shaped structure of RGZ-CL J0823.2+0333 from much smaller images of cosmic radio waves shown to them as part of the web-based program Radio Galaxy Zoo.

IAU contest enables public to name 47 exoplanets and stars

28 April 2015 Astronomy Now

The NameExoWorlds contest, organised by the International Astronomical Union and Zooniverse, is now entering its next stage. Fifteen stars and 32 planets have been made available for naming proposals from registered clubs and non-profit organisations.

BBC Stargazing Live helped amateur astronomers find supernovae

3 April 2015 Astronomy Now

More than 40,000 amateur astronomers working on a supernova hunt run by the Zooniverse team based at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with BBC Stargazing Live, found five supernovae and catalogued two million unidentified heavenly bodies found by the SkyMapper telescope in Australia.

Citizen scientists lead astronomers to mystery objects in space

28 January 2015 Astronomy Now

Volunteers working on the Milky Way Project, one of many so-called citizen scientist activities on the crowdsourcing Zooniverse website, used web-based tools to make an interesting discovery.