{"id":5253,"date":"2013-11-11T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2013-11-11T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:28:58","slug":"planet-hunters-pass-20m-classifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5253","title":{"rendered":"Planet Hunters pass 20M classifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a>\u00a0citizen science program hits a large numeric milestone:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2013\/11\/10\/20-million-classifications-and-counting\/\" target=\"_d\">20 million classifications and counting! &#8211; Planet Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planethunters.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/ph-20million.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"PH-20million\" src=\"http:\/\/planethunters.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/ph-20million.png?w=479&amp;h=333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Planet Hunters has just crossed the 20 million classification mark, a milestone to be celebrated! Thinking back to this time three years ago, the\u00a0 the Zooniverse development team and\u00a0Planet Hunters science team\u00a0 were hard at work on the design and building of the site.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t know if people would come to the website to help find planets by reviewing Kepler light curves; we were showing graphs of a star\u2019s brightness over time, not the beautiful galaxies in\u00a0 the stunning images on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\">Galaxy Zoo.<\/a>\u00a0 Since the day the project launched in December 2010, we\u2019ve been blown away by the response. It\u2019s been truly overwhelming. I know I couldn\u2019t\u00a0 have comprehended reaching 20 million classifications back then, and here were are with over 260,000 volunteers worldwide participating in Planet Hunters!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Planet Hunters\u00a0citizen science program hits a large numeric milestone:\u00a020 million classifications and counting! &#8211; Planet Hunters &nbsp; Planet Hunters has just crossed the 20 million classification mark, a milestone to be celebrated! Thinking back to this time three years ago, the\u00a0 the Zooniverse development team and\u00a0Planet Hunters science team\u00a0 were hard at work on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planet Hunters pass 20M classifications<\/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":[12,46,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-exoplanets","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1mJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7989,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7989","url_meta":{"origin":5253,"position":0},"title":"Citizen science: The Milky Way Project classifies 1M images + New Kepler data for Planet Hunters","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Milky Way Project\u00a0at the Zooniverse citizen science site has accomplished a lot in a short time:\u00a01,000,000 Classifications and 7 Languages - The Milky Way Project The Milky Way Project has now passed one million classifications since its relaunch a few months ago. 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