Galaxies, large collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of space.
By studying these silhouettes, astronomers can map how dust is distributed throughout galaxies and learn how it blocks, scatters, and dims starlight traveling through space.
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Galaxies, large collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of space.
The backlit dust creates dark silhouettes, like shadows on a screen. By studying these silhouettes, astronomers can map how dust is distributed throughout galaxies and learn how it blocks, scatters, and dims starlight traveling through space. Measurements of how dust impacts light can even help astronomers refine estimates of the distances to faraway objects.
Overlap Zoo is asking for your help with the search.
As a volunteer in Overlap Zoo, you'll view images that volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project have identified as containing possible overlapping galaxies. The Overlap Zoo project will teach you how to verify the presence of galaxy pairs in these images, classify features of each galaxy, and mark their outlines.
Head over to Overlap Zoo and start classifying galaxies today.
Confirm and describe overlapping galaxy pairs to reveal interstellar dust.
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