Explore the Universe with Galaxy Zoo

[J77]

http://galaxyzoo.org/

Heard about this on BBC Radio 4 this morning -- thought a few people on here may be interested but didn't know which forum it belonged in

e2a: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6289474.stm

 

[Evo]

This is very cool. I'm moving it to Astronomy with a redirect from here.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

Does look interesting, I will do a few. =-)

edit: The real images can be very hard to classify. I am guessing they mainly want a spiral:elliptical ratio at differing distances, the spin on most of the spiral galaxies is quite hard to determine - for me anyways.

 

[Kurdt]

What a great idea to get the public involved in science. Shame it went out on BBC radio 4.

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

I got about 10 tabs going since it takes a bit to load each picture. I have probably done 500 now. Zzzz lol

Well here is the nicest picture I came across:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/8127/nicecb9.jpg Just a star that got in the way, but a nice looking one. :-)

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I've done about a dozen. I hope they show the same galaxy to 3 people and take the majority opinion.

 

[jimgraber]

I've done about a dozen. I hope they show the same galaxy to 3 people and take the majority opinion.

I'm pretty sure they do something like that. I agree it's needed. From my first 20 or 30, I'd say about 70% are pretty clear, 20% I have a good guess, and about 10% are really mystifying. Some of these hard ones are definitely not stars, but I am tempted to click star/don't know cause they really are don't knows, at least to me.
Jim Graber