‘Anyone?‘ asked Hanny from the Galaxy Zoo Forum. She came across a weird blue blob that none of us could really make any sense of. It’s right next to a rather massive galaxy that might be a spiral or a somewhat disturbed galaxy.
A highly scientific illustration.
At first, we had no clue. The mystery blob didn’t [...]
The Bad Astronomer has an interview with me on his site, talking about the cosmology results.
I just got a compliment on my chef hat from a Nobel Prize recipient.
UPDATE: By popular demand, here is the slightly embarrassing photo:
Hey guys and girls,
So, as you probably know, the last month or so of Galaxy Zoo has been dedicated to testing whether we have any bias in our classifications (and if you want to know why we are interested in looking at the rotation of galaxies then please have a read here). By ‘bias’ we [...]
It is a rule of scientific meetings that some of the most productive times are informal gatherings with your colleagues, who are also your friends. And like any gathering of friends, they often take place in the pub. Funding agencies won’t pay for the beers – we pick up that expense ourselves – but it’s [...]
Hi, all. I’m still at AAS. I haven’t been able to post as often as I would have liked because I’ve been tied up at the Sloan Digital Sky Survey exhibit booth (not literally). The SDSS is the source of all the images for Galaxy Zoo, so it’s an important part of what we’re all [...]
I’ve just realised that everything I’ve just written in this blog post over at my personal site is relevant to Galaxy Zoo. Enjoy.
Howdy, y’all! I’m at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas. Many of you had said you wished you could come to this meeting. Zookeeper Chris and I are here, and we’ll try to give you a vicarious experience of what it’s like here. We’ll be posting more often than usual this week, as [...]
Hey all, as some of you know, I’m working on the blue ellipticals in Galaxy Zoo. I’ve been working on the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies ever since I started my PhD. In many ways, they’re the most interesting galaxy type out there because they never really want to come out “right” in simulations. [...]
Following Anze’s post we’ve had a number of requests from people to see their weighting. Indeed we did think about this for a bit, but alas I reckon it’s a bad idea to publish users weights for a number of reasons – but mainly because it is very unclear what the weights really say about [...]