Help Map the Universe

Ever since I wanted to be an astronaut when I was young I've been captivated by all things space related. Now I can actually make a contribution to our knowledge of space which is pretty cool.

From The Map Scroll...

Galaxy Zoo is asking the internets for a favor: help describe the universe. Specifically, they want laypeople to help classify the hundreds of thousands of galaxies in their database:

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer.

You look at images like these:



And answer questions like these:



And by doing so you will have contributed to the wisdom of crowds.