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Galaxy Zoo: morphologies derived from visual inspection of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ★

Chris J. Lintott, Kevin Schawinski, Anže Slosar et al., 2008. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Introduces Galaxy Zoo, which asked members of the public to classify the shapes of nearly a million Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies online, and discusses how the classifications were gathered and checked.

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Lintott, C. J., Schawinski, K., Slosar, A., Land, K., Bamford, S., Thomas, D., Raddick, M. J., Nichol, R. C., Szalay, A., Andreescu, D., Murray, P., & Vandenberg, J. (2008). Galaxy Zoo: morphologies derived from visual inspection of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13689.x
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