Galaxy Zoo 2

[filkertom]

huskiebear and mrgoodwraith alert us to Galaxy Zoo 2. Let me just quote from their web site:

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer.

In other words, you can sign up and help classify galaxies.

Comments

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

I was actually a part of Galaxy Zoo 1, and it was fun! Galaxy Zoo 2 looks like it's going to be even more fun! :D

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome. Signing up.

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I pray that they have some restrictions on who is permitted to enter data, else the wikipirates will have a field day here.

Beer Galaxy
Banking Galaxy, with a financial black hole at the center.
Tootsie pop Galaxy, who knows what's at its center (without biting).

[aiela.livejournal.com]

Its just questions where you click the answer, so far as I can tell. So not a lot of room for stuff like that.

[mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com]

You can post interesting galaxies in the Galaxy Zoo forums and give them any kind of nickname you want, but none of that gets used for science purposes. ;-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, there's a great big one! Must be nearrrrly 4000 years old! (/sarahpalin)