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About Euclid - Challenge the Machines
Gravitational lensing allows you to see warps in space. Everything warps space, even you right now, but it's easiest to see around things as big as entire galaxies. If you have one galaxy almost exactly lined up behind another one, the background one is seen through a foreground warp, so it looks stretched and distorted. These gravitational lenses are extremely useful in cosmology, but they're also rare alignments. Currently, looking at images by eye is the best technique for finding gravitational lenses in images. Scientists are making artificial intelligences to find them more quickly. Recently these artificial intelligences were tested against simulated data, and they did pretty well! Even so, we think humans can still teach the machines a thing or two when it comes to lens finding. With your help we can train the machines to perform even better and unveil the amazing science hidden among the deluge of astronomical data. Can you spot those odd looking lenses that even the best artificial intelligences miss? Can you beat the machines?
Euclid - Challenge the Machines was developed with the help of the ASTERICS Horizon 2020 project.
ASTERICS is a project supported by the European Commission Framework Programme Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action under grant agreement number 65347.