NASA - NASA Events Set for American Astronomical Society Meeting

Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds

This is a screen shot from the Clouds game, a new addition to the Milky Way Project, where everyone can help astronomers sort and measure our galaxy. Copyright: 2010-2012 Zooniverse 

A new galactic game launching today lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way Project, where everyone can help astronomers sort and measure our galaxy. Clouds features images and data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA.

In the rapid-fire game, players gauge whether a targeted section of a presented image is a cloud, a "hole" -- an empty region of space -- or something in between. The cataloging of these snapshots of the local cosmos will help astronomers learn more about the architecture and character of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

The organizers of Clouds encourage astronomy enthusiasts to start playing now, because with enough participation, important insights into the Milky Way could come as soon as early next year.

"We're really excited to launch Clouds and see results back from our giant volunteer team of amateur scientists," said Robert Simpson, a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at Oxford University, England, and principal investigator of the Milky Way Project. "We think the community can blast through all these data fairly quickly. We may even be done by the spring, and that would be an amazing result for citizen science."

Read the full story at:  

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/1489-feature12-08-Armchair-Science-Bag-and-Tag-Glowing-Galactic-Clouds .

To participate in the Clouds experience by looking for infrared clouds and contributing to the Milky Way Project, visit:

 http://www.milkywayproject.org/clouds .

For more information about Spitzer, visit:

http://spitzer.caltech.edu and

 http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer . More information is online at: 

http://www.herschel.caltech.edu , 

http://www.nasa.gov/herschel and

 http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel .

 NASA Events Set for American Astronomical Society Meeting

 

 

WASHINGTON -- NASA scientists will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics topics next week at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The meeting takes place Jan. 6-10 at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd, in Long Beach, Calif. Media registration for the event is open.

None of the briefings will be carried on NASA Television, but all will be web-streamed on AAS's website for registered journalists.

NASA's media briefings during the meeting will feature topics such as new video of a rapidly rotating neutron star, the latest images of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, and the most detailed "weather map" of a brown dwarf star. In addition, NASA scientists and their colleagues who use NASA research capabilities will present noteworthy findings during several scientific sessions throughout the week.

For a complete list of NASA-related news briefings, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/aas

The site will be updated throughout the week with additional information about NASA presentations.

For detailed information about the 221st AAS meeting, visit:

http://aas.org/meetings/aas221

For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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