For the past few months on this blog, we’ve been talking about the science of Galaxy Zoo – what your millions of classifications have revealed to us about the way the universe works. Right now, as Steven and I described Friday and Monday, the members of the Galaxy Zoo team are writing papers announcing our [...]
As Steven mentioned in his post last Friday, we are hard at work on the first round of papers from Galaxy Zoo. Back when we started this blog, Chris listed the four papers that we expect to come out in the first round. To review them:
1) A paper summarizing the structure of Galaxy Zoo, with [...]
As you may have noticed from the sparseness of recent posts, the Galaxy Zoo team have all been buckling down in an effort to get some work done. Progress on my Galaxy Zoo paper has been a little delayed by the need to do some work for another project I’m involved with: the GAMA [...]
One of the things that constantly amazes me about astronomy is how much we can learn from so little. The only information we get from stars and galaxies is the light they give off. Whether this light comes in the form of visible light, infrared radiation, radio waves, x-rays, and so on – it’s still [...]