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Galaxy Challenge Browse thousands of beautiful galaxy images on the internet, learn to recognise different types of galaxy,and make a galaxy calendar (or web page, poster or card game). (Also makes a good introduction to galaxies before doing the Galaxies Before the Dinosaurs project - about clusters of galaxies). Barred spiral galaxy NGC 4725 Outline What is a galaxy? 2 The challenge 2 Instructions 3 1. Download images of galaxies from SDSS 3 2. Practise classifying a few galaxies 4 3. Check with the experts 5 4. Collect 12 images of different types of galaxy 6 5. Showcase your collection of galaxies 6 7. Please send us your evaluation! 7 Appendix: display options 7 A galaxy calendar 7 How to make the galaxy calendar 7 A website 7 A poster 7 A card game 8 What is a galaxy? Galaxies are collections of millions upon millions of stars. They come in different shapes and sizes. Some have beautiful spiral arms; others are virtually featureless. Some have bars across the centre; others do not. The largest galaxies consist of hundreds of thousands of millions of stars; the smallest only a few tens of millions. Some galaxies are actively forming new stars; some finished doing this thousands of millions of years ago. A selection of different types of galaxy The challenge Find images of 12 different types of galaxy produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Display these by making a galaxy calendar (or, if you prefer, a web page, poster, or card game). Short of time? You could share the task of finding suitable galaxies with others and make your galaxy calendar a joint effort. Instructions Download images of galaxies from SDSS Macintosh instructions are in square brackets [like this]. Galaxy coordinates from RC3 Catalogue Where to paste the galaxy data in the SDSS Image List Tool Images of the centres of nearby galaxies as they first appear in the Image List Tool The Image List zoom tool The same galaxies as above after zooming out four steps Import the names