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Happy Half-Birthday
The Milky Way Project is now 6 months old, so happy half-a-versary! More than 25,000 of you have now drawn over 1.5 million objects onto our galaxy – congratulations. As a thank you, we’ve put together...
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Spitzer and Herschel
Yesterday was a busy one for the Milky Way Project, and for the Zooniverse. A BBC News story drove tens of thousands of visitors to the site in just a few hours. The story featured a beautiful image of...
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Mapping Interestingness in our Galaxy
I’ve posted a lot lately about how we’re reducing down all your bubble drawings into one amazing catalogue of bubbles. However you also draw many other things onto the MWP image, such as green knots,...
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Bubbles on the Tree
We’re often told how festive the images in the Milky Way Project look – so for the Zooniverse Advent Calendar we’ve made some festive MWP tree decorations. You can download these template PDF files...
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Exploring the MWP: Coordinates and SIMBAD
One of the most common questions posted on Milky Way Talk is “What is [that thing] in this image?”, and science team members try to respond to some of those where we can. The galactic plane is so...
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Data Release 1
We submitted the first Milky Way Project paper to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) in December and the referee has been very kind to us so far. We have our fingers crossed...
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Milky Way Project Refresh
We’re excited to announce that we have updated the Milky Way Project to show you more bubbles and to produce even more science! After creating our catalogue of 5,106 bubbles earlier this year, we’re...
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Triggered Star Formation
There’s a new Milky Way Project paper out on the arXiv. It was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal last week and concerns the topic of the triggered formation of massive stars. This study was lead...
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The Most Distant Bubble?
A little while ago Sarah Fitzmaurice, a work experience student at Zooniverse Oxford, spent a week working with the Milky Way Project database. She did some fun things with the data, including plotting...
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NASA’s Spitzer Sees Milky Way’s Blooming Countryside
A great article from JPL’s Spitzer site, about GLIMPSE and with a lovely link to the Milky Way Project. [URL: NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming Countryside - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
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New Milky Way Project Poster
I’ve been diving into the bubbles database recently and ended up creating cutouts of all 3,744 large bubbles from the DR1 data release. From there it was an easy enough job to create this new Milky Way...
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New Data, New Look: A Brand New Milky Way Project
The Milky Way Project (MWP) is complete. It took about three years and 50,000 volunteers have trawled all our images multiple times and drawn more than 1,000,000 bubbles and several million other...
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The Project Is Complete… But Not For Long
After a fantastic (re)launch in December and a busy January, the Milky Way Project was doing well and was about 93% complete… until about 8 hours ago. Last night, the social media powerhouse that is...
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A New Batch of Milky Way Project Data Has Arrived
After a busy December and January we ran out of data a few weeks ago after 600,000+ classifications of the new images – but the wait is over! Last night a whole new, bigger, batch of data was added to...
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1,000,000 Classifications and 7 Languages
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....
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New MWP paper outlines the powerful synergy between citizens scientists,...
A new Milky Way Project paper was published to the arXiv last week. The paper presents Brut, an algorithm trained to identify bubbles in infrared images of the Galaxy. Brut uses the catalogue of...
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Combining Your Clicks with Milkman
I’ve been building a new app for the Milky Way Project called Milkman. It goes alongside Talk and allows you to see where everyone’s clicks go, and what the results of crowdsourcing look like. It’s...
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Our Sentimental Galaxy
More than 25,000 comments have been made on Milky Way Project Talk since the project began in 2010. That’s a lot of content in itself – beyond the main classification data from the MWP’s main...
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A New Paper All About #yellowballs
There is a new Milky Way Project paper in the news today, concerning the #yellowballs that were found by Milky Way Project volunteers. The Yellowballs appeared on the very first day of the Milky Way...
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