A new site lets you play with galaxies, writing out any word or phrase using astronomical phenomena that happen to look like letters.

The fun webpage – My Galaxies – is part of the Galaxy Zoo, a citizen science project that enlists ordinary people to sift through data from Hubble and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify celestial objects. Launched in 2007, Galaxy Zoo has identified more than 250,000 new galaxies, most of which have remained undiscovered until now. Along with finding a plethora of objects in the night sky, Galaxy Zoo volunteers have spotted many oddly shaped galaxies, and a good deal resembling English letters and numbers.

The star-spelling website, created by astronomer Steven Bamford, a member of the Galaxy Zoo team, lets you type in a short sequence and have it appear written in cosmic font. Our attempt to write "Wired Science" can be seen above. Results can sometimes be a bit blurry – no galaxy exactly looks like a letter – but you can always retry the results with other galaxies until you get something you like.

Check it out for yourself. If you galaxify any clever or amazing phrases, please send them to us and we may use them in a future article.

Image: My Galaxies