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	A galaxy of helpful people
balthazarus
1-15-2009 4:57 AM
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internet, community, collaboration
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Truly a story of the power the Internet and the new ways of communication provide.
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<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/a99e62ad-44de-4ce3-b182-afdcee2d60cd/61E6080D-7ED7-4EAE-AEAA-09085C37A1F3/" 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://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy"><H1>A galaxy of helpful people</H1></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://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy"> the power of the web to create a massive citizen-science project that is truly collaborative</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://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/BD97EFE6-B68E-46B1-9681-74C5206BB616" alt="Spiral galaxies" /></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://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy">Galaxy Zoo (<A href="http://galaxyzoo.org">galaxyzoo.org</A>), launched in July 2007, was supposed to be a side project; instead it has turned into the biggest citizen-science experiment on the web.</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://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/internet-astronomy">Galaxies can be classified as spiral, elliptical or merging (when two come together)</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; 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