Galaxy Zoo

From Wikiversity
(Redirected from Galaxy zoo)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Interacting galaxies

Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in classifying over a million galaxies. The project is inspired by Stardust@home, where the public was asked by NASA to search images obtained from a mission to a comet for interstellar dust impacts. Galaxy zoo is a collaboration between Oxford University, Portsmouth University, Johns Hopkins University and Fingerprint Digital Media, Belfast.

How you can help[edit | edit source]

Go to GalaxyZoo.org. There will be a brief introduction and test. After that you can start classifying galaxies, helping in scientific research while at the same time learning about the types of galaxies.

See also[edit | edit source]