Astronomy Rewind fast-forwards to reanimate `zombie` astrophotos
(PHYSorg.com Space & Earth)

More than 30,000 celestial images that were all but lost to science are about to find their way back into researchers` hands thanks to the efforts of thousands of citizen scientists. The photographs, radio maps, and other telescopic images were scanned from the pages of dusty old journals for a cosmic reclamation project called Astronomy Rewind. Its goal is to bring these `zombie` images back to life so that astronomers can find them online and compare them with modern electronic data from ground- and space-based telescopes, making possible new studies of short- and long-term changes in the heavens.