🔭 Astronomers at the University of Texas want your help identifying galaxies.
All those galaxies are packed into a patch of sky that includes most of the Big Dipper..On a smartphone or computer, volunteers look at astronomical images and decide whether the objects they see are galaxies.
"We've tried writing computer code to do this and even used machine learning, but we found the human eye is significantly superior," Karl Gebhardt, a UT astronomy professor, said. "We were skeptical at first, but we were blown away by the accuracy."The aim is to build the largest 3D map of the cosmos, focused on galaxies in the early universe to help reveal clues about dark energy.
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