http://arfon.org/hunting-for-supernovae/
"Over the last few days we’ve been running a little project to see if the Galaxy Zoo community can help find new supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory). Turns out it works pretty well.
"Developing the website to power Supernova Zoo was a fun challenge; the Supernova and Galaxy Zoo websites look pretty similar and obviously share many features but there were some new problems to solve that we hadn’t faced before…"
(((They farm out fresh pics of galaxies and people look for stuff exploding in 'em. The "lotta eyeballs" paradigm.)))
(((They're finding LOTS. We're getting, like, lots of supernovae, heaps of new alien planets, stuff plowing into Jupiter and maybe Venus, and clouds and clouds of asteroids and Oort rubble. Some of that is from better instruments, and some of it is from more people looking. Might be a false distinction there if you consider the Internet a huge "instrument for looking.")))
http://galaxyzoo.org/
