Go ID a Galaxy!



GalaxyZoo is asking for your help to sort galaxies that no one has ever seen before - and here’s why they’re not using just computers to do the job:

Why do we need you?
The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognising patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful. To rescue these interesting systems which have a story to tell, we need you.

Link - Thanks Forrest! (and all those people who did well in the real vs. computer graphics quiz, check out GalaxyZoo’s galaxy identification quiz)


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Posted on July 13, 2007 at 5:37 pm by Alex
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