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“Hanny and the Mystery of the Voorwerp” goes live!

Here we are again, representing Galaxy Zoo at Dragon*Con. This is an enormous gathering of science-fiction and fantasy fans, aficionados of science, gaming, costuming, offbeat music – all packed into downtown Atlanta’s five largest conference hotels, every Labor Day holiday weekend. It’s a huge Con – the number of people here at one time or [...]

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  • Random, Science

    August 30th, 2010

    By Boris

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    Why build the Hubble Space Telescope?

    Why build the Hubble Space Telescope?

    After I had started my post about the planning phase of the HST up to the start, I have noticed that the arguments (which I thought to be a small section in there) for building a Space Telescope in the first place took up quite some space, so I have decided to post this for [...]

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    August 27th, 2010

    By stellar190

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    A star with a full house

    A star with a full house

    This week’s OOTW features Lightbulb500’s OOTD posted on the 27th of August.
    This star, HD 10180, lurks in Hydrus 127 light years away.  It’s a sun-like star, and through 190 observations of the stars wobble with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (phew) it is found to have five gas giants, and two more wobbles [...]

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    August 26th, 2010

    By Kevin

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    • XMM-Newton is observing Hanny’s Voorwerp TODAY!
    • Voorwerping, Part 1
    • Galaxy Zoo gets highlighted by the 2010 Decadal Survey

    X-ray paper submitted!

    Just a quick note: I’ve finally submitted the paper on the X-ray observations of IC 2497 and the Voorwerp with XMM-Newton and Suzaku. It’s a Letter so we should hear back fairly soon, so stay tuned!

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    August 26th, 2010

    By Chris

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    • Zoo 1 data set free

    Preethi’s Cross-Eyed Galaxy

    Preethi’s Cross-Eyed Galaxy

    Remember this object from back in February? It turned up in a paper that I was reading today, going by the name of Preethi’s cross-eyed galaxy.
    The paper, by Preethi Nair (now in Italy) and Roberto Abraham from the University of Toronto, is going to be really important as we analyze data from Zoo 2 [...]

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    August 20th, 2010

    By admin

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    A Comic Voorwerp

    A Comic Voorwerp

    This past Monday, at about 8pm Central (GMT -4), a Voorwerpish webcomic was delivered to Sips Comics for printing. Tuesday morning we got the page proofs, and now, one by one, they are being made into full color reality.
    We could say a lot of things right now: We could tell you about playing round robin [...]

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    August 18th, 2010

    By Chris

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    • Black Holes with an Appetite
    • From Blob to Collisional Ring
    • Binary Star System in Cetus

    A Grand Bold Thing : The story of the Sloan

    In many ways, the team here at Galaxy Zoo are freeloaders, making the most (with your help) of the hard work of the astronomers who work hard for years to design, build and operate the telescopes that produce the images for us to classify. The project’s first two incarnations were based entirely on images from [...]

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      — August 31st via Galaxy Zoo
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