Citizen Scientists Help Classify Faint Galaxies

Citizen Science Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution

 

Citizen scientists are helping astronomers understand how galaxies and their resident supermassive black holes grow.

In 2007 a simple online project invited the public to classify vast numbers of faint galaxies captured in beautiful panoramas by the Hubble Space Telescope. The trained human eye, astronomers judged, could still do a better job of assigning galaxies to their correct shape classifications than the best automated algorithms.

Five years later the Galaxy Zoo project is still going strong, but the classifications, still made by ordinary folks, have gotten more complex and ever more useful.
MORE: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Citizen-Science-Sheds-Light-on-Galaxy-Evolution-163852416.html

Source: Sky and Telescope Magazine - Posted by Monica Young, July 26, 2012

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