Galaxy Zoo 2 - you can help by looking at lots of cool images
Wednesday Feb 18, 2009
At lunch a friend told me about the launch of Galaxy Zoo 2. Galaxy Zoo 2 is a project where you can help by looking at actual images of galaxies taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) robotic telescope and then online helping to classify about a quarter of a million galaxies. This is a group effort you classify some, others help...
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More than 150,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries.
The primary goal of Galaxy Zoo 2 is to construct a database of detailed shape information for the largest sample of galaxies ever assembled. Such a database will have substantial legacy value for the international astronomy community. In short, Galaxy Zoo 2 hopes to find out everything there is to know about the appearance of galaxies!
Article on Galaxy Zoo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7746000/7746298.stm
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