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A new scientific project, called the Galaxy Zoo, is celebrating the enrollment of its first 85,000 participants, exploring the distant Universe via the Internet. The goal of the project is to classify ...

New Haven, Conn.-A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the “Green Peas” with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The ...

NASA is seeking the public's help to classify thousands of galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Through the citizen science project, called Galaxy Zoo (part of the Zooniverse ...

Do you have an Internet connection, some free time and a penchant for staring off into space? Then Galaxy Zoo needs you. Among the most ambitious and successful online “citizen science” projects to ...

Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists gain new insights by classifying galaxies seen in hundreds of thousands of telescope images as spiral or elliptical.

Citizen science, in which volunteers work with professional scientists to conduct research, is expanding due to large online datasets. To plan projects, it is important to understand volunteers’ ...

The knowledge commons research framework is applied to a case of commons governance grounded in research in modern astronomy. The case, Galaxy Zoo, is a leading example of at least three different ...