Classifying galaxies

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I just learned about this - others may be interested - I don't have a ton of free time, but I can see how you could do this for 20 minutes a day.

Basically there's lots of photographed galaxies out there, and there's no good automated way to classify them, so there's a website, http://www.galaxyzoo.org that invites the interested public (science wonks) to help classify them - such as, do they have spiral arms, discs, bulging centers, whatever. It appears that they solicit the opinions of many and aggregate them to see if there's a consensus on a given galaxy (some galaxies aren't so easy, and they get tossed to the scientists themselves to scrutinize) but in general you get to help everyone sift through the zillion galaxies we have out there.

So, check it out, help as you can, if you can... http://www.galaxyzoo.org

[Royal Sloan 09]

1. K & R, a small way to help out science.

:kick: :fistbump:

[Peace Patriot]

2. Cool! Thanks for the tip! nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Sweet! ElderGreenKid found that very interesting. We passed the link along to his science teacher.