Spiral Graph/NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA How Spiral Graph Works To investigate further, astronomers launched Spiral Graph.

Spiral Graph is available on the Zooniverse.org platform for citizen science projects. "These human-generated tracings give our software a boost so it can accurately measure how tightly wrapped ...

The Spiral Graph project takes advantage of a time-honored short cut common in art classes -- tracing. Ian Hewitt, Research Adjunct at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, and Patrick Treuthardt ...

The project, called Spiral Graph, has been in the works for almost a year and is about to officially launch on Zooniverse, a citizen-science web portal.

The work, called Spiral Graph, has been described in a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and is available to citizen scientists at Zooniverse.org for no charge.