Want to work for Galaxy Zoo?
If you happen to have a PhD – in any subject – and would like to help us continue the Galaxy Zoo adventure, then there’s a job advert on the Oxford Physics site that might interest you.
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Google helps out Galaxy Zoo
As this story announced on Thursday, Galaxy Zoo has been given a grant of $50,000 by Google. As Bob says “The Google grant will enable us to add two key features to Galaxy Zoo. We will incorporate ‘GoogleSky’ technology into the website so it resembles the Google Maps interface. Then we will put [...]
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eGZeLENS — The extensive Galaxy Zoo LENsing Survey
We’ve go exciting news; Galaxy Zoo has gotten time on our largest telescope
yet, the enormous 8m Gemini South telescope…
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Some of you may have had some interaction with me on the GalaxyZoo Forum on the topic of Gravitational Lenses. My name is Aprajita Verma and I am a researcher at the University of Oxford. [...] -
Happy First Birthday, Galaxy Zoo!
Sometimes, a picture says it best. Credit to: Waveney, Hanny, Bill, SDSS, INT, Hubble/NASA.
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The State of the Zoo
I was going to write another history post about the early days of the zoo to mark today’s anniversary. After all, it was around now – 9.30am – on July 11th that I realised just what we’d done, as our server went down under the pressure and email after email after email arrived in our [...]
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Beta-Testing Zoo 2
The serenity of the dreaming spires was somewhat shattered in the Denys Wilkinson building where Chris and Kevin work. Chris’s phone rings randomly when nobody’s calling him, I was defeated in a fight with the coffee machine, and the spirit of headless chickens prevails! The walls, nonetheless, are lined with galaxy pictures. The offices’ doors [...]
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It was a year ago today…
That this press release hit the web. Kevin, Kate and I spent the morning of the 10th July 2007 at
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The forum is back online
You can find it up and running here. Thanks to Edd and Phil for restoring it!
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Hubble, meet Galaxy Zoo. Galaxy Zoo, meet Hubble.
Regular blog readers will know that we were all hugely pleased to find out that our proposal to observe Hanny’s Voorwerp with Hubble was approved. This was especially welcome because we expected a very high oversubscription rate for next year – new and repaired instruments meant that there was pent-up demand for some kinds of observations which have [...]
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The Dreaming Spires
This is the second part of Alice’s adventures back in June. You can read the first part here. Done that? Then…
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