The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse

by Chris Lintott

Book Overview

'fascinating'
Brian Cox

This is the story of citizen science.

Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations, praying for clear skies, now they have no need to budge from their desks, as data arrives in their inbox. And what they receive is overwhelming; projects now being built provide more data in a few nights than in the whole of humanity's history of observing the Universe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198842228
• ISBN13: 9780198842224
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.3"