{"id":8112,"date":"2014-06-15T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8112"},"modified":"2014-06-15T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T16:40:18","slug":"zooniverse-news-sunspotters-wanted-an-oddball-in-the-radio-galaxy-zoo-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8112","title":{"rendered":"Zooniverse news: Sunspotters wanted, an oddball in the Radio Galaxy Zoo, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A scan of\u00a0\u00a0news and blog posts at Zooniverse citizen science projects:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspotter.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Sunspotter<\/a>\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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zooniverse.org\/2014\/06\/13\/become-a-sunspotter-and-play-solar-hot-or-not\/\" target=\"_d\">Become a Sunspotter and play Solar \u2018Hot-or-Not\u2019 &#8211;\u00a0Zooniverse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sunspotter.org\/2014\/06\/13\/and-were-back-sunspotter-round-2\/\" target=\"_d\">\u2026And We\u2019re Back!! Sunspotter Round 2 &#8211;\u00a0Sunspotter Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The goal<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u00a0is to determine the complexity of sunspot groups. It is well known (to solar physicists) that more complicated looking sunspot groups produce more solar flares than simple looking ones. But so far, scientists have not found a good way to quantify sunspot group complexity. This is not a task easily accomplished by a computer. Humans, on the other hand, can easily point to the more complex in a pair of objects, ideas, images, and so on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The task is to judge relative complexity of sunspot groups:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspotter.org\/#\/classify\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8113\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=8113\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunspotComplexity.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"835,523\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SunspotComplexity\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunspotComplexity.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8113\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunspotComplexity.jpg\" alt=\"SunspotComplexity\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunspotComplexity.jpg 835w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SunspotComplexity-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sunspotter.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Sunspotter blog<\/a>\u00a0has a several interesting posts about the sun, sun spots, solar weather and more<\/p>\n<p>===<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.galaxyzoo.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Radio Galaxy Zoo<\/a>\u00a0project has turned up a pair of galaxies that seem to be connected despite measured at vastly different distances and velocities: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.galaxyzoo.org\/2014\/06\/08\/remarkable-discoveries-underway-citizen-scientists-fire-up-radio-galaxy-zoo\/\" target=\"_d\">Remarkable Discoveries Underway &#8211; Citizen Scientists fire up Radio Galaxy Zoo &#8211; Galaxy Zoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.galaxyzoo.org\/2014\/06\/08\/remarkable-discoveries-underway-citizen-scientists-fire-up-radio-galaxy-zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=8114\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/arg00025v9_lab1.png\" data-orig-size=\"573,586\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"arg00025v9_lab[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/arg00025v9_lab1.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8114 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/arg00025v9_lab1-293x300.png\" alt=\"arg00025v9_lab[1]\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/arg00025v9_lab1-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/arg00025v9_lab1.png 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planethunters.org\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet Hunters<\/a>\u00a0project will look for exoplanets in data from the new <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/news\/nasakeplernews\/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&amp;NewsID=341\" target=\"_blank\">K2 phase<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Kepler<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>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- Planet Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/images\/k2fields.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/images\/k2fields600p-ci.jpg\" alt=\"Milky Way with 9 K2 field locations shown\" width=\"406\" height=\"203\" align=\"absmiddle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;This is a photograph of the Milky Way with the approximate locations<br \/>\nof the 9 proposed Kepler K2 campaign target fields. The line shows<br \/>\nthe ecliptic (Earth&#8217;s orbit plane) along which the Kepler Space<br \/>\nTelescope can maintain precision pointing. That line intersects the<br \/>\ngalactic plane in two locations.<br \/>\nCredit: ESO\/S. Brunier\/NASA Kepler Mission.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kepler.nasa.gov\/images\/k2fields.png\" target=\"_blank\">Click for higher resolution version<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkywayproject.org\/?utm_source=Zooniverse%20Home&amp;utm_medium=Web&amp;utm_campaign=Homepage%20Catalogue\" target=\"_d\">The Milky Way Project<\/a>\u00a0finds &#8220;a\u00a0wonderful\u00a0synergy that can exist between citizen scientists, professional scientists, and machine learning<em>&#8221; \u00a0<\/em>: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.milkywayproject.org\/2014\/06\/14\/new-mwp-paper-outlines-the-powerful-synergy-between-citizens-scientists-professional-scientists-and-machine-learning\/\" target=\"_d\">New MWP paper outlines the powerful synergy between citizens scientists, professional scientists, and machine learning &#8211;\u00a0The Milky Way Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1406.2692\">new Milky Way Project paper<\/a>\u00a0was published to the arXiv last week. The paper presents\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ChrisBeaumont\/brut\">Brut<\/a>, an algorithm trained to identify bubbles in infrared images of the Galaxy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Brut uses the catalogue of bubbles identified by more 35,000 citizen scientists from the original Milky Way Project. These bubbles are used as a training set to allow Brut to discover the characteristics of bubbles in images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. This training data gives Brut the ability to identify bubbles just as well as\u00a0expert astronomers!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The paper then\u00a0shows how Brut can be used to\u00a0re-assess the bubbles in the Milky Way Project catalog itself, and it finds that more than 10% of the objects in this catalog are really non-bubble interlopers. Furthermore, Brut is able to discover bubbles\u00a0missed\u00a0by previous searches too, usually ones that were hard to see because they are near bright sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>At first it might seem that Brut removes the need for the Milky Way Project \u2013 \u00a0but the ruth is exactly the opposite. This new paper\u00a0demonstrates a\u00a0wonderful\u00a0synergy that can exist between citizen scientists, professional scientists, and machine learning. The example outlined with\u00a0the Milky Way Project is that citizens can identify patterns that machines cannot detect without training, machine learning algorithms can use citizen science projects as input training sets, creating\u00a0amazing new opportunities to speed-up the pace of discovery. A hybrid model of machine learning combined with crowdsourced training data from citizen scientists can not only classify large quantities of data, but also address the\u00a0weakness of each approach if deployed alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>A lot more data arrives for participants in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diskdetective.org\/?utm_source=Zooniverse%20Home&amp;utm_medium=Web&amp;utm_campaign=Homepage%20Catalogue\" target=\"_d\">Disk Detective<\/a>\u00a0project to look for stars with disks of matter around them where planets could be forming:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.diskdetective.org\/2014\/05\/30\/good-news-everyone-272000-more-subjects\/\" target=\"_d\">Good News Everyone! 272,000 More Subjects &#8211;\u00a0Disk Detective<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211;\u00a0Zooniverse \u2026And We\u2019re Back!! Sunspotter Round 2 &#8211;\u00a0Sunspotter Blog The goal \u00a0is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zooniverse news: Sunspotters wanted, an oddball in the Radio Galaxy Zoo, and more<\/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":[31,14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science","category-space-participation","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-26Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7113,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7113","url_meta":{"origin":8112,"position":0},"title":"Sunspotter &#8211; citizen solar science","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunspotter\u00a0is a Zooniverse citizen science project in which participants \" help to organize sunspot images in order of complexity to better understand and predict how the Sun's magnetic activity affects us on Earth. 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