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.
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Date: 2009-02-17 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-17 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-17 06:01 pm (UTC)Beer Galaxy
Banking Galaxy, with a financial black hole at the center.
Tootsie pop Galaxy, who knows what's at its center (without biting).
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Date: 2009-02-17 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-17 07:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-18 06:59 am (UTC)