{"id":146081,"date":"2022-09-10T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-ai-program-uses-a-decade-of-citizen-science-to-find-40000-rare-ring-galaxies"},"modified":"2022-09-10T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T04:23:59","slug":"new-ai-program-uses-a-decade-of-citizen-science-to-find-40000-rare-ring-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-ai-program-uses-a-decade-of-citizen-science-to-find-40000-rare-ring-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"New AI program uses a decade of citizen science to find 40,000 rare ring galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-program-uses-a-decade-of-citizen-science-to-find-40000-rare-ring-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Royal Astronomical Society <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ras.ac.uk\/news-and-press\/news\/cyborg-collaboration-finds-40000-ring-galaxies-0\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> revealed that during the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nam2022.org\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2022<\/a>, currently being hosted at the University of Warwick, scientists will announce the discovery of 40,000 ring galaxies discovered using a \u201ccyborg\u201d approach \u2014 a combination of human and machine intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The work will be presented by Dr. Mike Walmsley of the University of Manchester and the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/zookeeper\/galaxy-zoo\/about\/research\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a> collaboration \u2014 a decade-long citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers for the Galaxy Zoo project look through pictures of galaxies and classify them by shape and features. Studying the morphology of galaxies is an important step in understanding how they interact with their surroundings. In the words of Galaxy Zoo\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/projects\/zookeeper\/galaxy-zoo\/about\/research\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAbout\u201d section<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Royal Astronomical Society press release revealed that during the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2022, currently being hosted at the University of Warwick, scientists will announce the discovery of 40,000 ring galaxies discovered using a \u201ccyborg\u201d approach \u2014 a combination of human and machine intelligence. The work will be presented by Dr. Mike Walmsley of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1499,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}