Scientists at the National Astronomy Meeting will announce this week that they have found 40,000 ring galaxies. The new work will be presented by Dr. Mike Walmsley of the University of Manchester and the galaxy zoo collaboration.
People living a chaotic life. The colors of billions of stars are disrupted by crashes with other galaxies and bursts of energy from black holes. It takes millions of images to understand which events lead to which markers.
In order to help, Dr. Mike Walmsley used a decade of volunteer data from the GALAXY ZOES to create an automatic assistant. TheZoobot can accurately predict what volunteers will say, but it also knows where it might be wrong.
More than 40,000 ring-shaped galaxies have been discovered, six times more than before. Rings take billions of years to form, and so this giant new sample will show how isolated galaxies evolve. Scientists will be able to see how galaxies age.
Zoobot is designed to be trained again and again. Zoobot can learn to answer new questions in less time than a musician can learn a new instrument. Humans and machines are working together to push the science of astronomy. We're helping other people.
The University of Lancaster's Dr. Brooke Simmons is the deputy principal investigator of the galaxy zoo. Dr. Walmsley's work will make it possible for a new generation of discoveries to be made.
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