ZOONIVERSE Activities

On the ZOONIVERSE website last week, I tried out all of the programs that they had available, but found that I most enjoyed working in the "Galaxy Zoo Hubble" and "The Milky Way Project" ones.  These were the two that I worked in this week.  For the "Galaxy Zoo Hubble" project, I dealt with classifying objects in space.  It asked a series of questions to better identify what was being seen.  Said questions included whether the object was smooth or rounded and if it had any disks or other special objects.  Some of them turned out to be a star, in which no other further questions were asked.  If they were smooth or round, then I had to specify what shape it was, and if there was anything odd about it.  If I clicked on that it had features or disks, I would classify whether it had a clumpy appearance, if it was a disk, or if it had spiral-like features.  If it had any of these features, the details of it were specified through another set of questions specifically on the questions I had previously answered, and then if there was anything odd about what was shown in the image.  The "Milky Way Project" was another interesting activity where you would look at a picture of space, and draw bubbles around the main points of a galaxy.  Doing this helps to measure out and sort our galaxy.