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Help astronomers explore the Universe

Welcome to Galaxy Zoo,
where you can help astronomers explore the Universe.

How "gaming" can help science.
Hubble uses gorgeous imagery of hundreds of thousands of galaxies drawn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope archive. To understand how these galaxies, and our own, formed we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the most advanced computer. If you're quick, you may even be the first person in history to see each of the galaxies you're asked to classify.

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