{"id":19025,"date":"2017-03-23T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astronomy-rewind-sifts-through-old-pictures-to-find-new-cosmic-perspectives\/"},"modified":"2017-03-23T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:46:23","slug":"astronomy-rewind-sifts-through-old-pictures-to-find-new-cosmic-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astronomy-rewind-sifts-through-old-pictures-to-find-new-cosmic-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy Rewind sifts through old pictures to find new cosmic perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_319567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319567\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-319567\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170322-rewind-1-630x252.jpg\" alt=\"Orion Nebula\" width=\"630\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170322-rewind-1-630x252.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170322-rewind-1-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170322-rewind-1-1240x496.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170322-rewind-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-319567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of the Orion Nebula from the June 1905 issue of Astronomical Journal, at left, can be matched up automatically with WorldWide Telescope\u2019s sky atlas, at right. (AAS \/ NASA \/ SAO Astrophysics Data System \/ WorldWide Telescope)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A new project called Astronomy Rewind is recruiting citizen scientists to bring decades-old cosmic images back from the dead and restore them to their rightful&nbsp;place.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest offering from Zooniverse, a crowdsourcing platform that got its start a decade ago with Galaxy Zoo and has since branched out into the search for Planet Nine, worlds around distant stars, exotic subatomic particles and much, much more.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomy Rewind pulls together scanned images and maps from American Astronomical Society journals that go back to the 19th century, and invites volunteers to classify them by category.<\/p>\n<p>With the assistance of an automated program at Astrometry.net, the images can be placed in their proper context on modern-day sky survey maps and other data repositories.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll also be incorporated into the Astronomy Image Explorer, a service of the AAS and its partners at the UK Institute of Physics Publishing, and into the image database for WorldWide Telescope, a&nbsp;digital sky atlas developed by Microsoft Research and now managed by the AAS.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Astronomy Rewind results in WorldWide Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJGTgNJ_V7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.75\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"600\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 600px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no telling what discoveries await,\u201d project co-founder Alyssa Goodman, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, or CfA, said in a news release. \u201cTurning historical scientific literature into searchable, retrievable data is like turning the key to a treasure chest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the treasure consists of scanned pages from the Astronomical Journal, Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters and the ApJ Supplement Series \u2013 all provided by the Astrophysics Data System, or ADS. The ADS archive is funded by NASA and housed at the&nbsp;Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which is part of the CfA.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomy <span id=\"0.0410750013954726\" class=\"highlight\">Rewind<\/span> is built on a foundation laid by the ADS All-Sky Survey, an earlier effort to digitize images from the AAS journals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out that machines aren\u2019t very good at recognizing celestial images on digitized pages that contain a mixture of text and graphics,\u201d said ADS project manager Alberto Accomazzi. \u201cAnd they really get confused with multiple images of the sky on the same page. Humans do much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=844893180361424896&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2017%2Fastronomy-rewind-old-pictures-new-cosmic%2F&amp;sessionId=dbefb9c8a395c071a6052aeb5d0b532ec1fa377c&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"844893180361424896\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782802977655503787=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#Zoonizens are AMAZING.  30K classifications of #ZombieAstronomy images on Day 1\u2013&#8221;weeks&#8221; of work in 1 day! More to come on  @the_zooniverse pic.twitter.com\/FQtWuMNxHM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alyssa A. Goodman (@AlyssaAGoodman) March 23, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That human knack for pattern recognition, facilitated by software tools, is what powers all of Zooniverse\u2019s projects. Over the past 10 years, 1.6 million Zooniverse volunteers have made about 4 billion image classifications and other contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just busy work,\u201d said the Adler Planetarium\u2019s Laura Trouille, a co-investigator for the Zooniverse effort. \u201cZooniverse projects have led to many surprising discoveries and to more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What overlooked gems could you bring to light&nbsp;with Astronomy Rewind? 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