University of Texas-Austin: Amateur Scientists Have Helped Astronomers Identify Nearly A Quarter-Million Galaxies
December 01, 2022
December 01, 2022
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:
Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to help in their quest. Now they hope to significantly scale up their volunteer force for a unique project that could reveal for the first time the nature of dark energy.
The research project known as HETDEX, or the Hobby-Eberly Telescope . . .
Astronomers on a historically ambitious and massive galaxy-mapping mission have activated more than 10,000 amateur scientists in 85 countries to help in their quest. Now they hope to significantly scale up their volunteer force for a unique project that could reveal for the first time the nature of dark energy.
The research project known as HETDEX, or the Hobby-Eberly Telescope . . .