Citizen-science project · On Zooniverse
Galaxy Zoo
The project that asked the public to sort galaxies by shape from survey images — and found volunteers could do it as well as experts, at enormous scale. Its classifications became a landmark dataset and the training labels for the machine-learning classifiers that followed.
Highlights
- ›The public classified galaxies at a scale no team could
Methods, objects & tools
Across public astronomy
Knowledge connections
- Associated withZooniverse
- Associated withGalaxy Morphology Classification
- Associated withSpiral Galaxy
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.