'Cosmic fruit machine' matches galactic collisions

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Sat, 11/28/2009 - 23:30

A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a 'cosmic fruit machine' and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic pile-ups.


 

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