The Milky Way Project

[Whitters]

Today we have launched a brand new Zooniverse site: The Milky Way
Project (http://www.milkywayproject.org). The Milky Way Project aims
to sort and measure our galaxy, the Milky Way. Initially we're asking
you to help us find and draw bubbles in beautiful infrared data from
the Spitzer Space Telescope. Understanding the cold, dusty material
that we see in these images helps scientists to learn how stars form
and how our galaxy changes and evolves with time.

As well as drawing out bubbles in our galaxy, we're also asking you to
mark other objects such as star clusters, galaxies and ghostly red
'fuzzy' objects. We're asking you to help us map star formation in our
galaxy! Take a look at our tutorial page for the complete run down,
with examples (http://www.milkywayproject.org/tutorial).

Talk Zooniverse

Also launching today is the Zooniverse's new collaboration and
community tool: Talk. Milky Way Talk resides at
http://talk.milkywayproject.org and there you can find, collect and
comment on the objects you see in the Milky Way Project. Every time
you classify an image in the Milky Way Project you will be prompted to
'discuss' that image via Talk. Talk lets you collect objects together
and shares those collections with everybody else. Talk is a brand new
feature, developed in-house at Zooniverse HQ. It continues to evolve
and change as you use it and we hope that through the Milky Way
Project, we can make Talk even better.

You can find us on Twitter @milkywayproj and out blog is at
http://blogs.zooniverse.org/mwp. We hope to see you on Milky Way Talk!

[doug]

     They always email me with the latest goings-on at the Zooniverse; I  will have a look later on.  I had a go at the galaxy one, and the Moon one; they are not easy but VERY interesting to participate in.

     Doug.