Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II

One of the big questions in galaxy evolution is why there are very few galaxies with clumpy structure in the local Universe when they were so common in the past. In this project, we are taking advantage of new tools - more powerful telescopes and machine learning - to more deeply investigate the enigmatic nature of giant star-forming clumps. As the name implies, we know these clumps are related to star formation, but how? Are the star formation processes that produce clumps in nearby galaxies the same as in the early Universe?

Volunteers in the first Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout project helped to find a large sample of these local clumpy galaxies. In this project we hope to learn more about the detailed shapes and substructure of these clumps. We now need your help to check and, if necessary, correct the predictions made by a machine learning model on what it thinks are clumps.

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This project is brought to you by the Galaxy Zoo team and with funding from NASA's Citizen Science Seed Funding Program (CSSFP): NASA Citizen Science projects

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"ELSA: Euclid Legacy Science Advanced analysis tools" (Grant Agreement no. 101135203) is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Innovate UK. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. UK participation is funded through the UK Horizon guarantee scheme under Innovate UK grant 10093177.

	We would also like to acknowledge partial support as well from the US National Science Foundation.

	This project makes use of Q1 data from European Space Agency's Euclid mission; learn more here: cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/euclid-q1-data-release