Five years ago this month, citizen science project Galaxy Zoo was launched. It has inspired new projects that are expanding our view of the Universe.
Carolyn Bol is among the relatively small number of people who can truthfully claim to have discovered an exoplanet, a world orbiting another star. Yet she isn’t a professional astronomer. An optometrist by training, Carolyn is a member of Planet Hunters–she helps to check the mass of data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft as a hobby…
First published in BBC Sky at Night magazine (July 2012).
