Modern telescopes have presented astronomers with a problem: there are too many images of galaxies for scientists to classify every single one. But crowdsourcing has an answer. Since 2007, some astronomers have enlisted "citizen scientists" to do the heavy lifting through a project known as Galaxy Zoo.
The original project was so successful, in fact, that a follow-up — called Galaxy Zoo 2 — started up in 2009 and ran for 14 months. The team behind it all (which comes from multiple universities around the world) has now publicly released the data from Zoo 2. In all, over 300,000 galaxies were organized by nearly 84,000 volunteers completed a total of over 16 million classifications.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4766496/scientists-use-crowdsourcing-to-classify-over-300000-galaxies
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