Galaxy Zoo
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Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an example of citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research.[1][2]
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Type of site | Volunteer Scientific Project |
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Available in | English, French, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Chinese |
Owner | The Citizen Science Alliance |
Created by | Galaxy Zoo Team |
URL | www |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Yes |
Launched | 11 July 2007 |
Current status | Ongoing |
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There have been 15 versions as of July 2017.[3] Galaxy Zoo is part of the Zooniverse, a group of citizen science projects. An outcome of the project is to better determine the different aspects of objects and to separate them into classifications.