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More than 83,000 volunteer citizen scientists participated
in the crowdsourcing project
More than 83,000 volunteer citizen scientists. Over 16
million galaxy classifications. Information on more than 300,000 galaxies. This
is what you get when you ask the public for help in learning more about our
universe.
The project, named Galaxy Zoo 2, is the second phase of a
crowdsourcing effort to categorize galaxies in our universe. Researchers say
computers are good at automatically measuring properties such as size and color
of galaxies, but more challenging characteristics, such as shape and structure,
can currently only be determined by the human eye.