Image Recognition
One open mystery is around the formation of jellyfish galaxies, named that because of their long tails of gas which look like trailing jellyfish tentacles. Now, a new project is inviting the public to help research these cosmic jellies by identifying targets for further study. Jellyfish galaxies form in galaxy clusters, which are groups of galaxies that also have hot gas in the space between them. “We hope you’ll join this endeavor to look for Jellyfish galaxies so we can understand them better!”The project consists of 38,000 images that need to be searched for jellyfish. Volunteers can use the Zooniverse platform to see images of galaxies which they then identify as showing or not showing a jellyfish galaxy.