Agronesia

I dare say this Mr. 588011503136145672 is an elliptical galaxy

I found this website named Galaxy Zoo. After we register there and pass the test (yes, there’s a test!) we can start help them classify galaxies! Another great way to spend your time when you’re bored.

Although there are only 6 categories to choose there, apparently asking for human help is better than making a program to classify it. If you don’t know anything about galaxy shapes (like me), don’t worry because there’s a very visitor-friendly tutorial.

From the 15-question test, I answered 12 correctly and passed:

Thanks to the tutorial, I now know some stuffs about galaxy classification. First we have the boring elliptical ones and the more interesting spiral ones. The spiral galaxies can be further classified based on their twirling direction, clockwise or counter clockwise. Then we also have image of merging galaxies and anomalous image caused by stars or satellites.

Most of the stuffs I encountered there were low quality blobs so far, but I’m hoping to discover a conical galaxy one day.