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For those of you who contacted me in the past about citizen science projects, you might consider the following project to be of interest. 

"You could be the first person to lay eyes on a galaxy!"

"Thanks to a new Galaxy Zoo citizen science project launched today, you can help identify the shapes of thousands of galaxies in images taken by ESA’s Euclid space telescope. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed over time, and what caused these changes and why.

In its mission to map out the Universe, Euclid will image hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies. In November 2023 and May 2024, the world got its first glimpse at the quality of Euclid’s images, which included a variety of sources, from nearby nebulas to distant clusters of galaxies. In the background of each of these images are hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies." 

Click on the link for more information and to learn how you can participate:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_Galaxy_Zoo_help_us_classify_the_shapes_of_galaxies?fbclid=IwY2xjawEYlkVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYb-epbMLWKMYAiuKa_cWhQaOFaliUZJpZJFMD5JGiis1EQPD-ju4i1sGw_aem_SdLPAK95WUDkNFOloU21cQ

What do you think about this project? Do you think it is something teachers could use in classrooms?