Scientists seek galaxy hunt help
A new project known as Galaxy Zoo is calling on members of the public to log on to its website and help classify one million galaxies.
The hope is that about 30,000 people might take part in a project that could help reveal whether our existing models of the Universe are correct.
Computers users undergo a three-minute online tutorial and are then allocated a series of images and asked to decide whether each one shows a spiral or an elliptical galaxy.
If it's a spiral galaxy, they're asked to decide which way it appears to be rotating.
The images come from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope in New Mexico, US.
