Classifying galaxies in a European citizen science project

Over the next few years, the Euclid space telescope will send around 100 gigabytes of data to Earth every day. In order to analyse these large amounts of data, the scientists from ESA and the Euclid consortium are cooperating with "Galaxy Zoo", a citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, in which the public can help classify the shapes of galaxies. The Euclid consortium will make its first data catalogues available to the scientific community from 2025, but until then, any volunteer taking part in the Galaxy Zoo project can take a look at previously unseen images from the telescope and help classify the galaxies captured there.

Further information on how to take part can be found on Zooniverse.