<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a64fb1ca-6f4d-434b-9a55-0817b92d601c/488C9453-AC54-4FCA-AFA8-A9E05E0F2CF7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/11278FBF-6575-49D0-A487-8ED460BCB7BE" alt="See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html"> Pictured above, a group of vibrant <A href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009arXiv0903.5057D">mergers</A> found by Zooites demonstrates the diverse <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Ran_the_Zoo">zoo-like</A> nature of many <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080721.html">interacting galaxies</A> in the universe. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html">You, too, can Zoo. The <A href="http://www.galaxyzoo.org/story">Galaxy Zoo</A> project has been enabling <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science">citizen scientists</A> -- inquisitive people <A href="http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/14020000/14020657.jpg">like yourself</A> armed with only a web browser-- to sort through the universe. Specifically, after a brief training session, <A href="http://citizensci.com/">volunteers</A> are asked to use the <A href="http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2006/07/71364">superior image-processing power</A> of their minds to classify and measure properties of galaxies in the vast <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Digital_Sky_Survey">Sloan Digital Sky Survey</A>. In its two short years of existence, millions of galaxies have already been inspected by thousands of enthusiastic volunteers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html"> Using <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Zoo">Galaxy Zoo</A> data, for example, the universe has been discovered to create <A href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008MNRAS.388.1686L">no preferred spin direction</A>, an <A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080625.html">unusual and unclassified object</A> was <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kOIVvO-ZNI">found</A> that is still being investigated, and a whole class of small galaxies dubbed <A href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/07/27/galaxy-zoo-discovers-new-group-of-galaxies-green-peas/">Green Peas</A> were uncovered where star formation occurs at an extraordinary high rate.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/488C9453-AC54-4FCA-AFA8-A9E05E0F2CF7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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