We’ve launched a brand new search with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and we need your help to find more strong gravitational lenses!!

Jimena Gonzalez Lozano has been hunting for lenses in the wide area Dark Energy Survey using a machine learning code called Vision Transformer. But because there are lots of things in the Universe that can mimic strong lenses, and because it’s hard to get lots of example strong lenses to train the machine learning codes, it’s still very hard to find strong lens candidates. This is where you come in, we’d love for your to take a look at the data and find some lenses. All you need to do is look at the images presented, click if you think it’s a lens otherwise press done. In just a few minutes you can contribute significantly to identifying the most probable lens candidates. And if you are worried about getting it wrong, please don’t be – we average many classifications before we accept or reject a candidate. We’ve only been running a short time but you (as the crowd) are already finding some previously undiscovered systems. If you have a spare few minutes, please give us a hand at spacewarps.org … Every click counts!!!!