GALAXY CRUISE’s First Dive Into Colliding Galaxies
Galaxies identified as showing strong signs of interactions in GALAXY CRUISE. Credit: NAOJGALAXY CRUISE, with the help of 10,000 citizen astronomers, discovers that galaxies’ star formation rate surges during collisions, as highlighted in their first scientific paper.The citizen science project GALAXY CRUISE has yielded its first scientific paper. The results show unambiguously that the star formation rate is enhanced in colliding galaxies. This research was made possible by the approximately 10,000 citizen astronomers…