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Holy Galaxify Batman! Galaxy Zoo Allows Users to Put Their Name in Big Lights
If you’re going to put your name in lights, you might as well go big; REALLY big. And with millions of galaxies forming all sorts of shapes including letters, numbers and punctuation, GalaxyZoo has created a way for you to do just that.
More than 250,000 people, sorting through about a million images, have taken part in the Galaxy Zoo project since its launch in 2007. “Their findings have ranged from the scientifically exciting to the weird and wonderful,” says the Galaxy Zoo team. And among the weird, the Zooites – that’s what project volunteers call themselves – have found an alphabet of galaxies.
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Post tags: Galaxy Zoo, Hubble Space Telescope, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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2012-09-10 16:11:32
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