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Hello, Joseph.

It turns out that humans are far better than any machines at pattern recognition tasks and one of the greatest has to do with figuring out if something in the night sky is a star, a galaxy, a nebula, your mother-in-law, ...

Astronomers at Portsmouth, Oxford and Johns Hopkins would like your help. There's plenty to do and despite being at it for quite a while there's still over a million objects to classify (don't suppose they're saving the good stuff for themselves, do you?)

Readers with spare time and eyeballs can go to Galaxy Zoo. Better hurry, though. This site has become quite a hit. "Galaxy Zoo 2 will go live in the near future featuring a much more detailed classification system, while further off we plan GalaxyZoo 3 with lots of exciting new data. We'll notify all of you via the newsletter when we're able to start these two new endeavors."

Better get your nebular clusters while the gettin's good.

Please contact NextStage for information regarding presentations and trainings on this and other topics.

Links for this post:

• Did the earth move for you?
• Have you met Eris? You might have known her as Xena
• Lunar Eclipse Tonight
• The Stellar Career of Brian May

• "Know How Someone's Thinking in 10 Seconds or Less" Half-day training at Toronto Emetrics Marketing Optimzation Summit, 3 April 08

• Toronto Emetrics Marketing Optimzation Summit, 31 March - 2 April 08
• New Communications Forum 2008, 22-25 April 08 at The Vineyard Creek Inn & Spa, Sonoma County CA
• San Francisco Emetrics Marketing Optimzation Summit, 4-7 May 08
• SUNY Marketing Professionals Conference at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, 11-13 June 08

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