Find and classify your own damned galaxy....
Everyone is blogging it, and it is important, and about to fall off the scienceblogs front page
The Galaxy Zoo lets you browse Sloan Sky Survey data and do first order galaxy classification of hitherto unknown moderately faint galaxies.
This is subtly important - a frighteningly large fraction of modern astronomical data is never looked at.
Literally. The data is analysed by automated pipelines, there is a lot of it, but a lot is never looked at by actual mark I eyeballs. So we're probably missing something unexpected.
Go browse, it is summer.
"Anonymous weird galaxy" - with bonus weird type Ia supernova, in honour of Rob
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