Awesome Astronomy - Extra: The Hubble Tuning Fork & Citizen Science

Paul Hill hosts solo!

Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce.

In this podcast extra episode we talk to Dr. Karen Masters, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Haverford College, Pennsylvania about The Hubble Tuning Fork and Galaxy classification. But it's not only about that canonized galaxy classification system, it's also about how citizen science – astronomy done by absolutely anybody from their homes – can and does change the accepted wisdom and advance science.

Galaxy Zoo:

http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org

Twelve Years of Galaxy Zoo:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.08177

Morphological Classification of Galaxies:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09610

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