Galaxy Zoo

‘Galaxy Zoo’ Needs Human Eyes To Classify Sloan Telescope Images

Not strictly an anthropological post, but one that highlights how in some cases, humans are still better at deciphering visual data than the powerful computers and pattern recognition applications that have been built and designed over recent years. Following in the steps of previous projects like stardust@home, Galaxy Zoo needs volunteers to log on to their site and help classify thousands of images of galaxies, many of which will never have been seen by human eyes
as all the images were acquired by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey robotic