And to your left, you'll see a spiral galaxy.....

How fun is this?

While doing my daily surfing, I ran across a site called GalaxyZoo. It is set to officially launch tomorrow, it seems.

Basically, some astronomers rigged up a big camera on a big telescope and let it snap a million digital pictures of galaxies. Problem is, they all need to be classified. The bigger problem is that the kinds of categories they use, well, computers aren't good at deciding which fits which.

This is where YOU (and I) come in. Visit GalaxyZoo.org, complete a short tutorial on galaxy classification and then it shows you, one after the other, pictures of very far away places. You decide which category each fits into, click a button, and do it again with the next image.

No, there's no big reward. No, it's not a game. But if you like celestial phenomena, you'll see more close-ups of things that you've never seen before than you can handle. The best part is that when you get bored, you stop. Its easy, kinda fun, kills time and helps science.

So, rush on over to www.galaxyzoo.org right now and get started.

"Cover your eyes Billy, those two galaxies are MERGING!"

--Iton