The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse

'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.

It's not just astronomy either—dealing with this deluge of data is the major cha...