When Alice and the Zookeepers asked if some of us would like to contribute to the Blog I thought I would use the opportunity to grab the attention of any newbies who wander this way and might wonder what all the fuss is about and why people are still clicking after a year of classifying.
Well [...]
UPDATE: There are plans afoot for a California meetup on September 27th! Read about it on the forum, and go if you can!
One of the greatest things about Galaxy Zoo has been the real-life meetings it has inspired, and the friendships that have resulted from these interactions. Alice wrote two wonderful blogposts (1 and 2) [...]
As Chris mentioned last Saturday, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have gathered in Chicago to review accomplishments and look ahead to the future. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is the project that provided all the images for Galaxy Zoo; but additionally, it has provided some of the most amazing results in astronomy [...]
Hi Pea Hunters,
Kevin and I wanted to give you an update with where we are in our Peas investigation. We haven’t answered all of our questions, but from detailed inspections of their spectra, it appears that the Peas are a mixed bag. A large portion of them appears to be powered by star [...]
I’m sitting in the back of the third day of the conference here in Chicago, and a fairly animated question has just been asked of Changbom Park, who has been working with a set of galaxies classified by an automatic routine. (You can find some of their results in this paper). I’ll need more thinking [...]
Greeting from a very sunny Chicago! Several members of the Galaxy Zoo team are here this week (Steven, Chris and Bob, along with various new additions) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Symposium: “From Asteroids to Cosmology”.
There’s a brief segment on BBC’s Science in Action programme on Galaxy Zoo in general and the handedness result (which many of you followed on the blog and helped with the bias study.). The mp3 will only remain on their website for a week, so go get it now!
A few months ago we asked anyone who felt so inclined to record their name to be added to the image which is referenced in each and every Galaxy Zoo paper. It features more than 5000 zooites spread across a beautiful Hubble image of a (clockwise) spiral galaxy, and looks fantastic!
You can order the poster from the [...]
One of the things I cherish about the Galaxy Zoo Team is that they let me write publicly to encourage people to enter the realm of science. There’s an opportunity to do that this academic year at Winchester Planetarium. On the second Wednesday of each month, at 6:30 p.m., a guest speaker is giving an [...]
I’ve written a long piece on my personal blog about trying to do science when you’re a project as public as Galaxy Zoo is. It’s my opinion rather than the team’s, so I’ll leave it there but if you’re interested take a look and comment over there.
Chris