Last January, Stardate: M83 was launched on +The Zooniverse
This joint project was designed to enlist citizen scientists to help uncover the ages of star clusters in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83).
It is possible to estimate the age of a star cluster based on its appearance, and since humans are very good at discerning these sorts of details, participants helped astronomers identify which of the clusters in the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy had certain key characteristics, such as clouds of hydrogen gas around them.
So, after six week, how did it go? What did the astronomers learn?
Please join +Tony Darnell as he discusses the success of the project and what is coming next.
As an added bonus, we’ve invited the top 10 citizen science classifiers to acknowledge their contributions and get their feedback.
We will have the Q&A app running during the event and we also encourage you to ask any questions or comments here on this event page or use twitter and the hashtags #hubble and #hubblehangout .
Hope to see you there!