Friday, July 13, 2007

Article:Online help sought to organize galaxies

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/07/12/galaxy.internet.ap/index.html

LONDON, England (AP) -- Scientists need help sorting through an unusual
digital photo album: pictures of about 1 million galaxies.

They are asking volunteers on the Internet to help classify the galaxies
as either elliptical or spiral and note, where possible, in which
direction they rotate.

Read more at the article above

The site where they are asking for help is http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ you just have to do a brief tutorial first

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