Crowdsourcing astronomy

by Cash | March 29, 2007 at 10:49 am
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Ah - telescopes of course!

Ah - telescopes of course!

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How amateur and professional astronomers worked together to discover a bizarre astronomical phenomenon.

A terrific endorsement of citizen science, citizen journalism and crowdsourcing. 

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Jordan Yerman
Jordan Yerman
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at 11:08 on March 29th, 2007

At NowPublic, this is high praise from NowPublic editors! Very good find, and your comment is dead-on.

Your story is now on the home page for awhile, and everywhere else the “good stuff” box shows up. Many thanks for your great work.

mtippett
mtippett
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at 11:16 on March 29th, 2007

crowd sourcing is now a cosmic phenomenon.

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Cash

I gues we could just call it cosmicsourcing??

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