Hay guys, I recently went to a talk by some science type people about their role in the space industry, there was this woman who was going on about black holes and classification of different galaxies and such, she linked us to this site called Galaxy Zoo
[url]http://www.galaxyzoo.org/#/classify[/url]
Hubble space telescope and other telescopes took millions of photos of galaxies in space. But, due to the fact that there may be anomalies in the photographs and generally confusing stuff which would fuck up a computers recognition software, they need your help. Go to that website if you want and begin classifying galaxies, this will help correlate information about different classifications and some science shit happens, you will basically be doing work too complex for little babby computer.
The main site itself: [url]https://www.zooniverse.org/[/url] Is fantastic, they have photos and data from dozens of different data sets such as the weather on Mars, the ocean floor, animals camouflaged in Serengeti and other stuff like bat calls and climate change.
I know I have worded the OP terribly, but its a really cool website with a lot of science type stuff to do. So check it out if you got some spare time.
This seems pretty cool. It's interesting that they trust the internet enough to classify the pictures.
Expected a zoophilia website, was disappointed.
[QUOTE=Period;42636731]Expected a zoophilia website, was disappointed.[/QUOTE]
Don't be so negative, think what I think! What if there's a galaxy that kinda' looks like bestiality?
So i just clicked on the site and didn't read about anything and i clicked randomly around. Afterwards i read what it was about, have i fucked over science for the next 100 years because i said a round galaxy looked like a disk?
[QUOTE=Nuggi man;42652333]So i just clicked on the site and didn't read about anything and i clicked randomly around. Afterwards i read what it was about, have i fucked over science for the next 100 years because i said a round galaxy looked like a disk?[/QUOTE]
I'm 90% sure they have it set to take the average answer over a large amount of people.
[QUOTE=Nuggi man;42652333]So i just clicked on the site and didn't read about anything and i clicked randomly around. Afterwards i read what it was about, have i fucked over science for the next 100 years because i said a round galaxy looked like a disk?[/QUOTE]
it was home to the only other intelligent life in the universe and now thanks to you we'll never meet
9 out of 10 are just round smudges.
But sometimes you can get some real pretty ones.
I also found this weird thing
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QkxOH6S.png[/IMG]
Is it a nebula?
[QUOTE=booster;42656420]9 out of 10 are just round smudges.
But sometimes you can get some real pretty ones.
I also found this weird thing
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QkxOH6S.png[/IMG]
Is it a nebula?[/QUOTE]
It's a space disco ball.
[QUOTE=booster;42656420]9 out of 10 are just round smudges.
But sometimes you can get some real pretty ones.
I also found this weird thing
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QkxOH6S.png[/IMG]
Is it a nebula?[/QUOTE]
The diffraction spikes make me think it's a star.
[QUOTE=booster;42656420]9 out of 10 are just round smudges.
But sometimes you can get some real pretty ones.
I also found this weird thing
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QkxOH6S.png[/IMG]
Is it a nebula?[/QUOTE]
My guess would be a late supernovae. After a star goes supernova the [i]outer shells[/i] of the star are jettisoned into space due to the immense pressure created from the 'explosion'. It looks stationary, but the shell is actually traveling at somewhere towards the thousands of kilometers per second side of the scale. The reason the gas glows is because it has been ionized by the remaining white/brown dwarf's solar radiation. (also the 'pressure wave' created from the gas blowing outwards. Creates a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock]bow shock[/url] which will also energize the gas)
At least, this is what I remember from Astronomy.
Also, [u]Zooniverse[/u] is fucking amazing. Everyone should take 15 minutes out of their week and classify some Galaxies, sort through Cancer data, or dig through 200 year old ship logs.
It's for Science!
[img]http://www.galaxyzoo.org/subjects/standard/524482bc3ae74054bf0084ac.jpg[/img]
found this thing :D
Hubble's pictures are utter shit. Can't see anything but huge pixels. I could count them.
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I went through around 20, contributed a bit.
It's p simple but looks pretty:
[img]http://www.galaxyzoo.org/subjects/standard/524482bb3ae74054bf00381a.jpg[/img]
Green pixels and low resoultion blobs is what I get most of the time. But I did start a collection on that website and I called it "stuff that is actually interesting".
Fuck I found aliens.
[img]http://puu.sh/55l0Z.jpg[/img]
The most stunning realization while I'm doing this. I'm going through them, and as I'm doing each individual picture, I reach the stunning realization that there's BILLIONS of stars, an incomprehensibly complex world of stars, planets, moons, in every single one of these small little itty bitty pictures. Countless worlds of infinite complexity, each with their own story, their own geography, they're own universe and civilizations and people in em, fighting, fucking, living lives of splendor or horror, love and hate, so many countless stories, and then the stunning realization that I'm just ... skipping them. Here's an entire galaxy filled with countless little details ... and I'm just skipping over them. Next. Next. Next. This one looks like a circle. This one has a little bulge in the center of it. Hmm - And then, the thought that there's countless worlds, countless people in em. Perhaps that bulge is a natural disaster killing off trillions of people and millions of worlds. Perhaps there's no life at all in this entire galaxy because radiation from that bulge is killing them off. Perhaps there's someone... or someTHING, looking right back at us through that picture.
Amazing.
[QUOTE=Xystus234;42740798]Deep[/QUOTE]
The way you described each world (not the civilisation part) reminds me of SpaceEngine, check it out if you've got some free space on your PC and some spare time.
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;42743165]The way you described each world (not the civilisation part) reminds me of SpaceEngine, check it out if you've got some free space on your PC and some spare time.[/QUOTE]
That's the entire goal of Space Engine. To give an easily accessible sense of scale to those that manage to find it.
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