Long, Long Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...
CWSF · 2026 Aerospace Bronze Medal
Overview
Since its founding in 2007, Galaxy Zoo participants have helped scientists classify hundreds of millions of galaxies and played a crucial role in examining large astronomical data sets (Pearson et al., 2025). Galaxy Zoo is an online citizen science platform in which participants can help scientists to analyze and classify thousands of galaxy images and understand more about the past, present and future of the universe. This work also helps train AI systems such as Zoobot for future large scale data classification. In total I classified 189 galaxy images but only analyzed 47 of the most interesting ones in further detail. From these images, I found a disturbed spiral galaxy with more than 4 arms and even a possible rare polar ring galaxy! I was very lucky to be the first person ever to view some of these galaxy images and help scientists identify interesting galaxies for further study.
Awards (2)
- Bronze Medal
- Selected for CWSF 2026
Competition history
- CWSF 2026
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