Quick facts about the Milky Way Project

Matthew Rezab

The Milky Way Project has around 35,000 “citizen scientists” sifting through tens of thousands of images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. The project has accumulated some astronomical statistics.

  • Classifications – 1,636,525
  • Bubbles          – 615,143
  • Starclusters    – 457,119
  • EGOs              – 364,966
  • Galaxies         – 124,598

Information courtesy of www.milkywayproject.org/

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