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Galaxy Zoo 1 : Data Release of Morphological Classifications for nearly 900,000 galaxies (2010)
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Lintott, C., Schawinski, K., Bamford, S., Slosar, A., Land, K., Thomas, D., …Vandenberg, J. (2011). Galaxy Zoo 1 : Data Release of Morphological Classifications for nearly 900,000 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410(1), 166–178. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17432.x

Morphology is a powerful indicator of a galaxy's dynamical and merger history. It is strongly correlated with many physical parameters, including mass, star formation history and the distribution of mass. The Galaxy Zoo project collected simple morph... Read More about Galaxy Zoo 1 : Data Release of Morphological Classifications for nearly 900,000 galaxies.