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If you're not a Real Scientist ™, but are a scientist wanna-be like me, here's a web site that lets you analyze galaxy images and provide useful data for working astronomers. It's called Galaxy Zoo, and it shows you pictures of galaxies and asks you a series of questions about them.
It turns out that our brains do a better job of classifying galaxies than computers currently do. Galaxy Zoo takes images from the robotic Sloan Digital Sky Survey and uses people's responses to sort the galaxies into categories for further study. It is an easy and fun way to contribute to our growing knowledge of the universe.
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"[A scientific theory] describes Nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept Nature as She is - absurd."
- Richard P. Feynman
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