Do You Have a Budding Astronomer?
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Now, it’s no secret that kids are incredibly curious. They love to learn about new and exciting things, and feel important. What if they could have a hand helping out global astronomers and learn a thing or two at the same time?
Cool right?
The website Galaxy Zoo is open to the public and it’s intended to have the public at large help to classify various galaxies.
The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order 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 fastest computer.
This would be a fun activity for parents and kid’s to do together. While I wouldn’t recommend letting little one’s go this alone, it would be a really exciting end educational to boot.
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