As you can see, we woke up this morning, to find that the Space Telescope Science Institute – the organisation running the world’s most famous telescope, Hubble — have sent out their approval and denial letters for the next cycle of observations with the Telescope. Our proposal for observing the Voorwerp (led by Principal [...]
Late last year we hinted at a surprise present for you. We also asked you for your name if you didn’t mind it being published…
Well, here you are:
No journal would allow us to have an author list with more than 100.000 names on it. However, you are our collaborators and we wanted to acknowledge your [...]
We have just found out that the first Galaxy Zoo paper we submitted has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This is really exciting, and what is even better is that we were not required to make any revisions or corrections first! This is almost unheard of – [...]
Update : Paper now available.
It has taken over six months and a lot of work, but we have finally decided the third Galaxy Zoo paper is ready for submission to a scientific journal, and to be made public. The paper was already in reasonably good shape a month or so ago, but given [...]
I (Waveney) joined Galaxy Zoo a few months ago and was a relatively quiet soul, who didn’t do very much…
A month ago I was sitting at a computer, and in theory looking at job ads, when I saw Chris’s request – Merger Hunters Needed. I read what was wanted and thought it would be [...]
With the help of coffee and biscuits, we’ve managed to get through the afternoon and the meeting is now over… to be continued in the pub in a few minutes.
If you’ve arrived via the Galaxy Zoo newsletter, you’re probably wondering where the posts about our observing trip are. They’re here:
Bill started things off by writing about our quarry for this Zoo-inspired hunt.
I then got excited about where we were, and about our first images. And about the telescope.
Later in the run we were [...]
The UK based Galaxy Zookeepers are gathering in Oxford tomorrow to discuss, among other things, our plans for Zoo 2, and you can join us (virtually) via UStream. We’ll start around 10 am BST tomorrow, and the stream will be on throughout the day, and you’ll be able to view an archive after the event [...]
We’ve all read the story of Hanny’s Voorwerp, and about two weeks ago we were lucky enough here in the UK to have the Voorwerp’s discoverer come and visit us again, meeting some of the team and catching up with some fellow volunteers at another Galaxy Zoo meetup.
Remember the Mars Polar Lander? It was a mission sent to Mars and land at its South Pole but was lost during the landing. The engineers don’t quite know why it failed and would like to know to avoid similar crashes in the future. To do that, they’d love to see the wreck left behind [...]