Monday, April 11, 2011

Zooniverse 4.1: Merging Galaxies

This week in Zooniverse, I participated in the "Galaxy Zoo: Mergers" project. The project involves matching simulated galaxy collisions with actual colliding galaxies. I had to run several simulations, and then I had to manipulate factors within each collision in order to get a more accurate match. The galaxy that we were trying to match was galaxy SDSS ID 758877153600208945, seen below:




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