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Thursday 19th July 2007
GalaxyZoo is so addictive! I have been processing photos for GalaxyZoo for a day now, and while most are uninteresting elliptical galaxies, occasionally there is a very nice looking spiral, or interesting galaxy. I have created a new gallery on this site for the my best GalaxyZoo galaxies.
Below is a sample, I will be updating the gallery when new interesting galaxies.
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Wednesday 18th July 2007
Whilst reading Chris Lintotts Universe (link on Blogroll right), I discovered a particularly interesting project called GalaxyZoo.
Inspired by NASA’s “crowdsourcing” project, Stardust@home, where members of the public are given the task of sorting through dust grains obtained by a mission to Comet Wild-2, GalaxyZoo aims to classify millions of galaxies photographed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope in New Mexico. After taking a short tutorial and a test, (which I aced!), GalaxyZoo shows a series of images of Galaxies and you decide if its a Spiral (clockwise, counter-clockwise or sideon) or and Elliptical. The ultimate aim of the survey is to shed light on how different kinds of galaxies are distributed across the universe.
By taking part, you’ll not only be contributing to scientific research, but you’ll view parts of the Universe that literally no-one has ever seen before and get a sense of the glorious diversity of galaxies that pepper the sky.
GalaxyZoo works by harnessing the power of the Internet and the power of the Human Brain. The brain is infinitely better at pattern recognition than even the most powerful super computer, so by using distributed processing hundreds of thousands of people across the world analyse each image and classify it.
Anybody can sign up, you don’t need to be an Astronomer, just head on over to GalaxyZoo and register an account. Its easy and only takes a few minutes.
That’s just what I have done today and started classification, after all, it gives me something to do in work!
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This post is filed under GalaxyZoo by Lonewolf at 12:11pm
