Cosmology: Citizen Science Project with LMU Participation

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With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen images captured by the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope. The project aims at shining a light on dark matter in galaxies and providing clues about mysterious dark energy.

LMU is directly involved in Space Warps; LMU physicist Leon Ecker is a member of the ten members research team. His research focuses on distant supernovae that are split into multiple images by gravitational lenses, as well as the use of strong gravitational lenses to study dark matter.Continue