The Zooniverse folks, hosts of the Galaxy Zoo project and other great astronomical crowd sourcing projects, has a new toy for folks to play with:
The Milky Way Project
The Milky Way project take Spitzer data and asks you to draw circles on it - using the rather superb pattern finding power of your brain to find structures not obvious in the data.
Then there is science done.
The Galaxy Zoo has lead to some interesting new discoveries, like the Green Peas, and the Milky Way project ought to lead to more and different interesting stuff.
Have at it!
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