Write Your Name In Galaxies!

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Ever wanted to see your name in lights? How about

star

lights? Well there's a fun little website that will let you assemble your name -- or anything you want to say -- using

real galaxies

as the letters... very cool!

Created by UK astronomer

Steven Bamford

, My Galaxies uses actual images of galaxies acquired through the

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

and

Galaxy Zoo

projects to create your message, which you can then share on Facebook, Twitter or email. You can even download a high-res version of the resulting PNG image (although I did find that I had to open the file in Photoshop and add a layer filled with black behind the galaxified letters, in order to clear out some background noise. Perhaps this can be fixed in the future.)

It's a nice bit of coding, and makes for a cool banner or message for your favorite starry-eyed individual. Check it out!

– Steven Bamford

Make your own My Galaxy message and read more about how it's done

here.

(Tip of the star-studded hat to Jennifer Oullette for the heads-up!)