{"id":7989,"date":"2014-05-31T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2014-05-31T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T16:07:38","slug":"citizen-science-the-milky-way-project-classifies-1m-images-new-kepler-data-for-planet-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7989","title":{"rendered":"Citizen science: The Milky Way Project classifies 1M images + New Kepler data for Planet Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkywayproject.org\/\" target=\"_d\">The Milky Way Project<\/a>\u00a0at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zooniverse<\/a> citizen science site has accomplished a lot in a short time:\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.milkywayproject.org\/2014\/05\/27\/1000000-classifications-and-7-languages\/\" target=\"_d\">1,000,000 Classifications and 7 Languages &#8211; The Milky Way Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The Milky Way Project has now passed one million classifications since its relaunch a few months ago. The project is currently 75% complete, meaning there are still many, many images left to classify. Which is fine because in fact the project has become truly international lately \u2013 with citizen scientists around the world now able to participate in English, Spanish, German, French, Indonesian, Polish and Danish. There are more languages on the way too!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kepler Observatory<\/a> was severely crippled last year due to the failure of\u00a0a reaction wheel needed to maintain the pointing precision of the space telescope. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov\/K2\/\" target=\"_d\">Kepler K2<\/a>\u00a0recovery plan will return the observatory to planet finding by taking advantage of\u00a0solar radiation pressure to maintain the pointing alignment.<\/p>\n<p>This is good news for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a>\u00a0citizen science program, which will now get a stream of new data from the space observatory:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.planethunters.org\/2014\/05\/16\/welcome-to-the-era-of-k2\/\" target=\"_d\">Welcome to the Era of K2 &#8211;\u00a0Planet Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; The Milky Way Project The Milky Way Project has now passed one million classifications since its relaunch a few months ago. The project is currently 75% complete, meaning there are still many, many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7989\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citizen science: The Milky Way Project classifies 1M images + New Kepler data for Planet Hunters<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,46,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","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-24R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8112,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8112","url_meta":{"origin":7989,"position":0},"title":"Zooniverse news: Sunspotters wanted, an oddball in the Radio Galaxy Zoo, and more","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A scan of\u00a0\u00a0news and blog posts at Zooniverse citizen science projects: The Sunspotter\u00a0project was introduced quietly earlier in the year and the first round of classifications \u00a0has\u00a0been declared a success and a new one is underway: \u00a0Become a Sunspotter and play Solar \u2018Hot-or-Not\u2019 -\u00a0Zooniverse \u2026And We\u2019re Back!! 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