Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Nielsen Michael

Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Nielsen Michael

Author:Nielsen, Michael [Nielsen, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-10-20T22:00:00+00:00


Figure 7.3. Two merging spiral galaxies (known jointly as UGC 8335). Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScl/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University).

[In my everyday work] I can ask the question “how many galaxies have a bar through the middle of them” and typically I would embark on a career-long quest to answer this fundamental question. I may even recruit some poor graduate student to eyeball 50,000 galaxies to answer the question (like they did with Kevin!). But now, two dayafter the launch [of Galaxy Zoo 2], we already have the data to address this question and it’s a little too fast for an old-timer like me. . . . The internet is clearly the revolutionary technology of this generation of astronomer. . . . Galaxy Zoo is an amazing demonstration of how powerful this new tool can be [when] used to address new questions.



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