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Canopus Academic Publishing is a fast-growing UK-based scientific publishing company which commissions and publishes monographs, textbooks, conference proceedings and reference works in physics and related areas in collaboration with our partner Springer Science+Business Media. As such, Canopus is an extension to Springer’s global publishing operation offering parallel commissioning and production of top quality physics titles.

Canopus also publishes titles of more general scientific interest, and in particular has established an excellent reputation in the astronomy market, with a number of bestselling titles by high-profile authors.

Fingerprint Digital Media role: Site design, wordpress theme build, wordpress training and support.

View Site: www.canopusbooks.com

The Zooniverse is home to the internet’s largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. Our current projects are here but plenty more are on the way. If you’re new to the Zooniverse, we suggest picking a project and diving in – the same account will get you into all of our projects, and you can keep track of what you’ve contributed by watching ‘My Zooniverse’.

Origin

The Zooniverse began with a single project, Galaxy Zoo , which was launched in July 2007. The Galaxy Zoo team had expected a fairly quiet life, but were overwhelmed and overawed by the response to the project. Once they’d recovered from their server buckling under the strain, they set about planning the future!

Galaxy Zoo was important because not only was it incredibly popular, but it produced many unique scientific results, ranging from individual, serendipitous discoveries to those using classifications that depend on the input of everyone who’s visited the site. This commitment to producing real research – so that you know that we’re not wasting your time – is at the heart of everything we do.

Real Science Online

The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance. The member institutions of the CSA work with many academic and other partners around the world to produce projects that use the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers deal with the flood of data that confronts them.

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View Site: www.zooniverse.org

Fingerprint Digital Media also provided website design and logo design services for the following Zooniverse projects;

> Galaxy Zoo 1
> Galaxy Zoo 2
> MoonZoo [MoonZoo1]

Our book, modestly entitled “BANG! – The Complete History of the Universe” is now available, and this site is intended to build a companion community for those interested in matters relating to the book.

We all, Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott and myself, plus the whole BANG! team, hope that the interactive nature of BangUniverse.com will stimulate constructive discussion of the astronomical topics raised in the book. In addition we will be open to suggestions to do with improvements that might be made to the site as time goes on. We will welcome constructive questions, suggestions and criticisms, and one of our first projects, as the site grows, will be to construct a Questions & Answers feature to enable quick answers to be found for the queries most often raised.

For me personally, the writing and researching of BANG! have been a wonderful voyage of discovery; I feel hugely privileged to have been able to spend time with Sir Patrick and Chris over the last two and a half years, and take part in the creation of something which we all hope will inform, and excite, and entertain, and provide a new generation of potential astronomers with inspiration. We stress: BANG! is written in ENGLISH, rather than the language of mathematics, designed to be clear to anyone not previously deeply immersed in Astronomy, but with an appetite for understanding; if there are sections in BANG! which are hard to follow, we would like to know about it, so we can make improvements, when the book is (hopefully!) prepared for its first reprint.

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View Site: www.banguniverse.com