A couple weeks ago, I talked about the Voorwerp (”object”), the strange blue object that Hanny posted to the Galaxy Zoo forum. She asked if anyone knew what it was, and we sure didn’t. Part of the problem was that we didn’t have a spectrum for it, so it could have been literally anywhere from [...]
A couple weeks ago, Chris and I attended the meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. At the end of the meeting, I uploaded the poster I had presented there:
Galaxy Zoo public outreach poster
In a comment to that post, mushroom made a fascinating suggestion:
Could be a fun visual communication exercise to try [...]
A user on the forum asked me what I meant by the word ‘random’ in my previous blog post. A statistician could explain this more precisely, but I’ll give my understanding of it in an astronomy context.
A random process is one in which a variety of alternatives could occur, but beforehand we cannot [...]
Galaxy Zoo features in this week’s Carnival of Space, a collection of all the best space blog writing from the past seven days. This week it’s in a 50s detective story format…and it’s definitely worth a look.
Does where we live make a difference to the kind of person we are? This is a question that has been addressed many times by social scientists, and certainly with more refined thought than the following example, but it will serve our purposes.
Consider one person, Victor, living in a small countryside village, and another, [...]
Kevin asked whether I could provide an entry on our efforts to figure out just what Hanny’s Voorwerp might be. This is definitely a guest blog – I am not a ZooKeeper, but they have been gracious enough to let me feed some of the less delicate animals on occasion.
As a reminder, Hanny posted this [...]
I suspect this is finally the last post relating to the AAS meeting, but I wanted to share the slides from my talk last Friday. Please note that these results are officially provisional! Talks at the AAS are just 5 minutes long (with so many astronomers it’s hard to find space) and I was definitely [...]
While we were at the AAS, Jordan and I were interviewed by Pamela Gay of Astronomy Cast. You can hear the results over at Star Stryder. (The good news is it’s audio, so you don’t have to worry about my shirt…)
The reason that Chris and I were at the meeting last week was to present results from Galaxy Zoo. On Thursday, I gave a scientific poster session about the public outreach results from Galaxy Zoo – how thousands of people have helped us classify galaxies, and how we hope we have helped you understand the [...]
I’m back from the AAS meeting in Austin. Last week, Chris and I reported on some of our experiences at the meeting; I know many of you said you wished you could be there, so we wanted to give you a peek at what a scientific meeting was like. There were a lot of posts [...]