{"id":5989,"date":"2014-01-10T05:56:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T05:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2014-01-10T06:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T06:41:42","slug":"spacewarps-citizen-science-boosted-by-bbc-two-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5989","title":{"rendered":"SpaceWarps citizen science boosted by BBC Two program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b019h4g8\" target=\"_d\">BBC Two Stargazing LIVE<\/a>\u00a0program has been urging its viewers to participate in the project\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\" target=\"_d\">SpaceWarps<\/a>, which is one of several\u00a0citizen science\u00a0projects sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Zooniverse<\/a>\u00a0organization. In SpaceWarps\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/#\/about\" target=\"_blank\">participants examine<\/a> celestial images in search of the very rare cases where the gravitational effects of a distant galaxy can magnify the image of an even more distant galaxy directly behind it. This lensing effect was predicted by Einstein&#8217;s general theory of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>The big increase in the number of participants has been a boon to the project and several candidate gravitational lenses have been found:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zooniverse.org\/2014\/01\/09\/stargazing-live-the-results-are-in\/\" target=\"_d\">Stargazing Live: The Results Are In &#8211; \u00a0Zooniverse<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b019h4g8\">BBC Stargazing Live 2014\u00a0<\/a>has been asking people to visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacewarps.org\/\">Zooniverse\u2019s Space Warps site<\/a>\u00a0to identify gravitational lenses: extremely rare events caused by one galaxy passing in front of another (very distant) galaxy. Tens of thousands of you have taken part and classified more than\u00a06.5 million images.<\/p>\n<p>Your classifications have already led to the discovery of more than 50 potential gravitational lenses! Amongst them are several beautiful and interesting discoveries. You can see a few of our favourite candidates above.\u00a0For Stargazing Live\u2019s third and final show we have focussed on the spectacular red arc\/ring shown below, it has been nicknamed\u00a09io9\u00a0by the team right now, because of it\u2019s Zooniverse ID. You can see more of what our volunteers are saying about it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/talk.spacewarps.org\/#\/subjects\/ASW0009io9\">here on Talk<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talk.spacewarps.org\/#\/subjects\/ASW0009io9\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Credit: Jim Geach \/ VICS82\" src=\"http:\/\/zooniverseblog.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/asw0009io9_credit_jim_geach-vics82-cs82.png?w=479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Credit: Jim Geach \/ VICS82<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More info on SpaceWarps can be found at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spacewarps.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Space Warps | A Zooniverse Project Blog (formerly Lens Zoo)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spacewarps\" target=\"_d\">Space Warps (SpaceWarps) on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpaceWarps\" target=\"_d\">Space Warps on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. In SpaceWarps\u00a0participants examine celestial images in search of the very rare cases where the gravitational effects of a distant galaxy can magnify the image of an even more distant galaxy directly behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceWarps citizen science boosted by BBC Two program<\/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":[12,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science-and-technology","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1yB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2177,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2177","url_meta":{"origin":5989,"position":0},"title":"Looking in on the Zooniverse citizen science space projects","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A scan of of what's happening with the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse: Galaxy Zoo - To understand how galaxies formed participants help to classify them according to their shapes. 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