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19-11-2009, 06:44 AM
Here is how.
They have created a game which you can play and help then sort through data collected since the 60s. Sounds interesting?
Check out this article for more details. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8364865.stm)
Be a Martian: the game. (http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/welcome)
And if you are feeling really helpful, there is Galaxy Zoo (http://www.galaxyzoo.org/)
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.
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They have created a game which you can play and help then sort through data collected since the 60s. Sounds interesting?
Check out this article for more details. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8364865.stm)
Be a Martian: the game. (http://beamartian.jpl.nasa.gov/welcome)
And if you are feeling really helpful, there is Galaxy Zoo (http://www.galaxyzoo.org/)
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.
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