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Citizen science - "the involvement of nonprofessionals in the scientific process," according to University of Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott, one of Galaxy Zoo's founders - is not a new concept. Distributed-computing projects like SETI@home, which hunts for radio signals that might indicate intelligent life in the universe, and ClimatePrediction.net, which tests the accuracy of global climate models, have long tapped volunteers' home computers to help process data. The difference between these projects and Galaxy Zoo - and its inspiration, Stardust@home, which asks volunteers to search electron-microscope images for interstellar dust particles collected in space - is that the latter...
...intensity with which the spiffily attired investment brokers of the African Banking Corp. stare at their computer screens is misleading. A closer look reveals that they're either fiddling with iTunes or playing solitaire. Still, their boss, Seti Shumba, who moonlights as chairman of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, offers them smiles and pats on the back - he's just glad they showed up to work...
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the astronomers, led by Dana Backman of the California-based SETI Institute, discovered the existence of two asteroid belts and an icy outer ring surrounding Epsilon Eridani...
...March 1999, the 84-foot radio telescope was badly damaged in a storm, and in 2007 it was torn down. The search, however, continues for Horowitz, who has moved on to optical SETI, using a 72-inch optical telescope for his current project...
...Nobody’s got anything as fancy as we have at Harvard: this is the cat’s meow in terms of optical SETI...