Discover Dark Energy from your armchair?

[Bolton Astronomy]

From the Zoonniverse project team:

Dark Energy Explorers

We are on the hunt for distant galaxies to measure Dark Energy for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX). In our local universe, Dark Energy is the mysterious term astronomers use to explain why galaxies expand away from each other at an increasing rate. We are searching for this by using distant galaxies to create the largest three dimensional map of the universe ever produced. The map will allow HETDEX astronomers to measure how fast the universe was expanding at different times in its history. 

Various explanations for dark energy predict different changes in the expansion rate, so by providing exact measurements of the expansion, the HETDEX map will eliminate some of the competing ideas. We need your help to identify the signals that are from distant galaxies. These galaxies are 10 billion light years away and we expect to discover millions of them, so check out Dark Energy Explorers to get started discovering!

Lean more, and get involved at https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/erinmc/dark-energy-explorers.