Citizen Science in the European Open Science Cloud

The Open University

Abstract

In 2007, Michael Longo published a startling result: he appeared to have found a fundamental handedness to the large-scale structure of the Universe, in an asymmetry between clockwise and anticlockwise spiral galaxies. His sample of 22 thousand galaxies had been examined partly by eye and partly algorithmically, and so the challenge was laid down to the community to verify or refute this result.