Awesome Astronomy - Extra: The Hubble Tuning Fork & Citizen Science

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Paul Hill hosts solo! Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. In this podcast extra episode we talk to Dr. Karen Masters, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Haverford College, Pennsylvania about The Hubble Tuning Fork and Galaxy classification. But it's not only about that canonized galaxy classification system, it's also about how citizen science – astronomy done by absolutely anybody from their homes – can and does change the accepted wisdom and advance science. Galaxy Zoo: http://zoo1.galaxyzoo.org Twelve Years of Galaxy Zoo: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.08177 Morphological Classification of Galaxies: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09610 We've added a new way to…