Balderdash71964
06-08-2008, 17:03
I find yet another example of how great the Internet is...
You want to be or help the worlds astronomers but you can't afford your own Hubble telescope? Look no further than your local internet connection for the means and wherewithal to accomplish your dreams.
It's real, not a game or simulation, and you too can succeed, just like this fellow has...
A Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer has discovered what some are calling a "cosmic ghost," a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical object.
The teacher, Hanny van Arkel, discovered the object while volunteering in the Galaxy Zoo project, which enlists the help of members of the public to classify galaxies online.
"At first, we had no idea what it was. It could have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team, said in a statement.
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080805/sc_nm/cosmic_ghost_dc)
You want to search the unchartered sky for your object of fame? Take this Tutorial first and learn how to identify galactic objects for classification purposes and you too will be allowed access to the online resources.
Tutorial (http://www.galaxyzoo.org/Tutorial.aspx)
You want to be or help the worlds astronomers but you can't afford your own Hubble telescope? Look no further than your local internet connection for the means and wherewithal to accomplish your dreams.
It's real, not a game or simulation, and you too can succeed, just like this fellow has...
A Dutch primary school teacher and amateur astronomer has discovered what some are calling a "cosmic ghost," a strange, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical object.
The teacher, Hanny van Arkel, discovered the object while volunteering in the Galaxy Zoo project, which enlists the help of members of the public to classify galaxies online.
"At first, we had no idea what it was. It could have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team, said in a statement.
Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080805/sc_nm/cosmic_ghost_dc)
You want to search the unchartered sky for your object of fame? Take this Tutorial first and learn how to identify galactic objects for classification purposes and you too will be allowed access to the online resources.
Tutorial (http://www.galaxyzoo.org/Tutorial.aspx)