Galaxy Zoo: Anyone Can Now Write Their Name in the Stars (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Galaxy Zoo: Anyone Can Now Write Their Name in the Stars (1 of 2)

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Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists gain new insights by classifying galaxies seen in hundreds of thousands of telescope images as spiral or elliptical. Along the way they’ve also stumbled across odd-looking galaxies which resemble each letter of the alphabet. It's now possible to write messages in the stars.

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Galaxy Zoo

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