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 Galaxy Zoo into the Google Sky interface which will allow people to zoom around the universe, click on any galaxy and classify it more easily.”
It’ll take us a while to get there but this should make classifying a lot more fun, and hopefully allow us to do all sorts of exciting things.
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That is brillant news Edd!!!! Sounds exciting. Thanks Google!!!
wonderful news, sounds very interesting. Thanks Google.
V cool indeed,great news, good old Google.
Wow, what great news!
Wow! Now I understand one of Chris’s comments to me…
I didn’t know classifying could be any more fun, but thanks for the cash, Google! Can we spend it on more get-togethers?
Wow! It just gets better & better…
We made history.
Yay!
It seems like every day there’s something exciting and wonderful in the blog !
Keep up the good works !
Great news! I said before that the birthday presents for the ZOO will keep coming. So, it would appear that my prediction has actually materialized. The more the merrier, right ? We are all really proud to be Zooites.
Congrats, is really a great news to us Zooites and of course to the scientists involved.
$50k is a nice piece of money which you deserve without a question. I am just little worried about GalaxyZoo getting less usable by this change, actually missing the point what it is all about.
But good luck after all! Show us the v2 soon!
As Jakub thinks, if I well understand,I’m a little happy of this opportunity and a little anxious with the repercussions I fear.
Excellent development! Looking forward.
Many thanks for this information.
It sounds like “a fairy tale beauty”
I cannot wait for this feature. I love flyin around the planet with google earth,, google mars is very cool too. Be great to be able to clasify galaxies by flyin’ up to them!
vicky in ottawa, canada