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The Milky Way Project is a joint venture between several organisations. The images used on this site are created from data provided by the Spitzer Space Telescope GLIMPSE and MIPSGAL surveys as well as the Herschel Hi-GAL consortium.
The University of Oxford is the oldest in the English-speaking world having been founded in the 11th or 12th centuries. Today, it combines research in the humanities with major effort in the natural sciences and medicine. Citizen science is supported by the Department of Physics, the Division of Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences, and the Oxford Martin Schools.
The Adler Planetarium – America’s First Planetarium – was founded in 1930 by Chicago business leader Max Adler. The Adler is a recognized leader in science education, with a focus on inspiring young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Throughout 80 years, the Adler has inspired the next generation of explorers by sharing the personal stories of space exploration and America’s space heroes.
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, is a teaching and research institute in Maths, Physics and Astronomy. Astronomical research is carried out in the fields of star formation, stellar evolution, astro-seismology, solar physics and extra-galactic astrophysics. It is named after Jeremiah Horrocks, who predicted and observed a transit of Venus in 1639, from a site in Lancashire, close to the location of the institute that now bears his name.
Herschel is an ESA space observatory that was launched in 2009 and has important participation from NASA. It it now located near the 'L2' point 1.5 million km from Earth. Its instruments, provided by international consortia, have to be cooled to -273 degrees in order to observe far-infrared and sub-millimetre light. The SPIRE instrument observes the longest wavelengths and was developed by an international consortium led by Cardiff University (UK).
Spitzer was launched into space in 2003, as part of NASA's Great Observatories programme. The spacecraft travels in an Earth-trailing orbit around the Sun, and for the first six years of operation was kept at temperatures close to absolute zero using liquid Helium. The Milky Way Project uses observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA.
HiGal is the largest open-time key project of the Herschel mission, with almost 900 hours of observing time, in which it is mapping the entire plane of the Milky Way to a width of 2 degrees at 5 wavelengths from 70 to 500 micrometers. It is led by Professor Sergio Molinari, of the Instituto Nazionale di Astro-Fisica (Italy).
Kim Arvidsson » Postdoctoral researcher at Adler Planetarium.
Robert Benjamin » GLIMPSE team member and Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Eli Bressert » PhD student at ESO and the University of Exeter researching star formation and star clusters.
Ed Churchwell » Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Principal Investigator of the GLIMPSE I&II surveys and team member on all other GLIMPSE Surveys.
Chris Lintott » Astronomer and Zookeeper at Oxford University. Between the Zooniverse, writing, podcasting and the BBC's Sky at Night program, Chris usually wishes he had more time to sleep.
Sarah Kendrew » Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg.
Chris North » Chris is a member of the calibration team for the SPIRE instrument on board Herschel, and is the UK Herschel Outreach Officer.
Sarah Maddison » Associate Professor of Astrophysics at Swinburne University, Australia.
Sergio Molinari » Sergio is the PI of Hi-GAL and a researcher at the Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Roma, Italy.
Matthew Povich » NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University.
Kevin Schawinski » Einstein Fellow at Yale University.
Reid Sherman » Millimeter-wave observational astronomer, graduate student at University of Chicago.
Arfon Smith » Technical lead of the Zooniverse. He used to know lots of things about astronomy but these days spends most of his time thinking in code.
Robert Simpson » Zooniverse Researcher and Developer at Oxford University. PI of the Milky Way Project.
Derek Ward-Thompson » Director of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute at the University of Central Lancashire and is the President of the UK Society for Popular Astronomy.
Barbara Whitney » Senior Scientist at University of Wisconsin and Space Science Institute.
Grace Wolf-Chase » Astronomer, Adler Planetarium & Senior Research Associate, University of Chicago.
The Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers.
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