{"id":2174,"date":"2013-05-08T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2174"},"modified":"2013-05-08T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:34:42","slug":"search-for-space-warps-in-new-citizen-science-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2174","title":{"rendered":"Search for Space Warps in new citizen science project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new citizen science project from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\" target=\"_blank\">Zooniverse<\/a> is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Space Warps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This project is a gravitational lens discovery engine. Large astronomical surveys can use Space Warps to find gravitational lenses in their data through the collaborative efforts of citizen scientists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is an animation of the gravitational lenses effect:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6hxFV-LvlrU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More information about the project is described here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zooniverse.org\/2013\/05\/08\/new-project-join-the-search-for-space-warps\/\" target=\"_d\">New Project: Join the Search for \u2018Space Warps\u2019 &#8211; Zooniverse<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravitational_lens\">Gravitational lenses<\/a> \u2013 or \u2018space warps\u2019 \u2013 are created when massive galaxies cause light to bend around them such that they act rather like giant lenses in space. By looking through data that has never been seen by human eyes,<a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\"> our new Space Warps project<\/a> is asking citizen scientists to help discover some of these incredibly rare objects. We need your help to spot these chance-alignments of galaxies in a huge survey of the night sky. To take part visit <a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\">www.spacewarps.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gravitational lenses help us to answer all kinds of questions about galaxies, including how many very low mass stars such as brown dwarfs \u2013 which aren\u2019t bright enough to detect directly in many observations \u2013 are lurking in distant galaxies. The Zooniverse has always been about connecting people with the biggest questions and now, <a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\">with Space Warps<\/a>, we\u2019re taking our first trip to the early Universe. We\u2019re excited to let people be the first to see some of the rarest astronomical objects of all!<\/p>\n<p>The Space Warps project is a lens discovery engine. Joining the search is easy: when you visit the website you are given examples of what space warps look like and are shown how to mark potential candidates on each image. The first set of images to be inspected in this project is from the CFHT (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfht.hawaii.edu\/\">Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope<\/a>) legacy survey.<\/p>\n<p>[See above video.]<\/p>\n<p>Computer algorithms have already scanned the images, but there are likely to be many more space warps that the algorithms have missed. We think that only with human help will we find them all. Realistic simulated lenses are dropped into some images to help you learn how to spot them, and reassure you that you\u2019re on the right track.\u00a0Previous studies have shown that the human brain is better at identifying complex lenses than computers are, and we know at the Zooniverse that members of the public can be at least as good at spotting astronomical objects as experts! We\u2019re going to use the data from citizen scientists to continuously train computers to become better space warp spotters.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really exciting project and you can read more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spacewarps.org\/\">Space Warps blog<\/a>. As with our other projects it can also be found on Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceWarps\">@SpaceWarps<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpaceWarps\">on Facebook<\/a> and you can discuss any interesting objects you find <a href=\"http:\/\/talk.spacewarps.org\/\">on Space Warps Tal<\/a>k. We\u2019re really excited about this project and think you\u2019ll be able to make some amazing discoveries through it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new citizen science project from Zooniverse is titled Space Warps. This project is a gravitational lens discovery engine. Large astronomical surveys can use Space Warps to find gravitational lenses in their data through the collaborative efforts of citizen scientists. Here is an animation of the gravitational lenses effect: More information about the project is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Search for Space Warps in new citizen science project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-z4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5989,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5989","url_meta":{"origin":2174,"position":0},"title":"SpaceWarps citizen science boosted by BBC Two program","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0BBC Two Stargazing LIVE\u00a0program has been urging its viewers to participate in the project\u00a0SpaceWarps, which is one of several\u00a0citizen science\u00a0projects sponsored by the\u00a0Zooniverse\u00a0organization. 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