Galaxy Zoo
Have you ever wanted to be an astronomer but didn’t really have the time or money to feed that hobby? Well, now you can!
The good folks over at Galaxy Zoo have created a program that enlists the help of us human computers on the web (it’s along the lines of what SETI did but instead of using your computer, they use you). Basically, real computers can’t (as of yet) determine details as well as their human counterparts. As a result, they need us to help classify the multitudes of galaxies that have been imaged.
Yes, it gets kinda boring after awhile but you can see some pretty cool galaxies that no one else has seen yet. Isn’t the universe an awesome place!
So, if interested, head over there and give it a shot. You have to take a quick tutorial and test and then you are up and running.
The good folks over at Galaxy Zoo have created a program that enlists the help of us human computers on the web (it’s along the lines of what SETI did but instead of using your computer, they use you). Basically, real computers can’t (as of yet) determine details as well as their human counterparts. As a result, they need us to help classify the multitudes of galaxies that have been imaged.
Yes, it gets kinda boring after awhile but you can see some pretty cool galaxies that no one else has seen yet. Isn’t the universe an awesome place!
So, if interested, head over there and give it a shot. You have to take a quick tutorial and test and then you are up and running.
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