Benjamin Dean Lecture: Galaxy Zoo: Citizen Science

Anyone can help discover new stuff in Galaxy Zoo- but why do people bother in the first place? Dr. Raddick responds with some unexpected insight into why people donate their time for open science and what they have discovered through the process. More than 250,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. The images used in Galaxy Zoo, from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are more detailed and beautiful than ever, and allow us to look deeper into the Universe than ever before.

Speaker: M. Jordan Raddick, Education Director, Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science, Johns Hopkins University