Galaxy Zoo and WorldWide Telescope Integrate

Galaxy Zoo users can now fly from galaxy to galaxy through the Microsoft Research WorldWide Telescope (WWT). On September 2, 2009, Galaxy Zoo and WWT simultaneously released updates enabling the integration of the two tools.

The Galaxy Zoo online astronomical citizen science project invites the public to help classify photographs of more than a million galaxies. It is estimated that as few as 10,000 to 20,000 volunteers could complete, in one month, work that would take researchers years to finish.
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About the Earth, Energy, and Environment Theme and Projects

Earth, Energy, and Environment collaboration projects in Microsoft's External Research division focus on work to advance the development and adoption of technologies for scientific visualization and data management, especially for accelerating insight in environmental and earth sciences.

Collaboration Initiatives and Projects

Visualizing and Experiencing Data
Providing unique experiences to reduce time to insight and knowledge through visualizing data and information.
Accessible and Consumable Data
Ensuring that remote and local sensing data is easily accessible and consumable in a scientist’s domain.
WorldWide Telescope Academic Program
Facilitating and enhancing collaboration for WorldWide Telescope, Microsoft's online virtual telescope that allows researchers to explore the universe.

Reports and Resources

Resources in the Research Community:
Resources from Microsoft:
Microsoft Research Projects:
- Computational Science at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
- SenseWeb/SensorMap

Earth, Energy, and Environment Topics

Conferences and Workshops

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
December 14-18, 2009, San Francisco, CA, United States
Microsoft eScience Workshop 2009
October 15–17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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