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View new stars & galaxies on your computer
Computer are great at some things and lousy at others. Computers are lousy at recognizing patterns in images. Human brains are great at the same task. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey took millions of photos of the distant night sky to capture as many galaxies as possible. Unfortunately, now they need to sort the pictures! Galaxy Zoo is a website that lets normal folks on the internet help classify the photos as either spiral galaxies or elliptical galaxies. You'll finish a brief tutorial on how to tell the two apart, then get to start looking at pictures and classifying galaxies. Many of the photos are of galaxies that have never been photographed before, so you may the first person to ever see it! All photos are classified by several different reviewers to get agreement on the type. They've completed round one of classification, but the project is ongoing. They'll start round 2 shortly where you can help identify other important patterns.
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