NASA needs help you determine the shape of thousands of galaxies in images taken by our James Webb Space telescope and use the Galaxy Zoo project. These categories will help scientists answer questions about how galaxy shapes change over time, what causes these changes, and why. Thanks to Webber's light-collecting capabilities, there are now over 500,000 galaxy images on the Galaxy Zoo Citizen Science project's website - more than scientists themselves can sort.

"It's a great opportunity to see images of the latest space telescopes," said Christine MacMillan, a volunteer in Aberdeen, Scotland. "Just as they started to form, we saw galaxies at the edge of our universe for the first time. Just sign up and answer simple questions about the shape of the galaxy you're seeing. Anyone can do it, over 10!"

When we look at objects farther away in the universe, we see them billions of years ago because light takes time to go to us. For Webb, we can discover galaxies farther than ever before. We have seen some of the earliest galaxies ever discovered. The shape of these galaxies tells us how they were born, how they formed stars and how they interact with their neighbors. By looking at the shapes of more distant galaxies and close-range galaxies, we can figure out which processes are more common in different periods of cosmic history.

On the Galaxy Zoo, you will first check the image of the Webb telescope. Then you will be asked several questions like "Is the galaxy circle?" or "Is there any sign of a spiral arm?". If you're quick, you might even be the first to see a galaxy you're asked to sort.

"I'm surprised and honored to be one of the first people to see these images! It's a privilege!" said Elisabeth Baeten, a volunteer from Rudo, Belgium.

Galaxy Zoo is a citizen science project with a long history of scientific influence. Galaxy Zoo volunteers have been exploring deep space since July 2007, starting with a million galaxies in telescopes in New Mexico called Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and then turning to images of space telescopes like NASA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA's (European Space Agency) Euclid Telescope. The project reveals a spectacular merger, teaches us information about how black holes in the center of galaxies affect their hosts, and provides insight into how features like spiral arms form and grow.

Now, in addition to adding new data from Webb, the scientific team has merged an AI algorithm called Zoobot, which will first filter the images and tag "easier people", with many examples already present in previous images of Hubble Space TeleScope. When Zoobot is unconfident in the classification of the galaxy, it may be due to complex or weak structures, it will show users on the Galaxy Zoo it for human classification, which will help Zoobot learn more. Working together, humans and artificial intelligence can accurately classify infinite galaxies. The Galaxy Zoo Science team thanked the International Academy of Space Sciences (ISSI), which provided the team with funding to get together and work on the Galaxy Zoo. Join the project now.