Galaxy Zoo 2: Citizen Scientists Catalogue More Than 300,000 Nearby Galaxies
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 18:31
in Astronomy & Space
Galaxy Zoo 2, the second phase of a crowdsourcing effort to categorize galaxies in our universe, has leveraged more than 83,000 citizen scientists to obtain over 16 million galaxy classifications and information on more than 300,000 galaxies. That's what you get when you ask the public for help in learning more about our universe. Computers are good at automatically measuring properties such as size and color of galaxies, but more challenging characteristics, such as shape and structure, can only be determined by the human eye. read more