Galaxy Zoo Blog

The Ghost of a Black Hole: Hanny’s Voorwerp in the News

 One of the most exciting results of Galaxy Zoo is that of the mysterious ‘Voorwerp’ (Dutch for ‘object’) discovered by Hanny van Arkel. She posted about a strange blob on our forum and we have been hooked by it ever since.  The Voorwerp has hit the news this week as we’re starting to understand just what it is. We’re collecting some of the news coverage here:

Oxford and Yale press releases. [...]

Galaxy Zoo Paper update

With so many fabulous results working their way through the system, you’d be forgiven for losing track of exactly what’s happening with the Galaxy Zoo papers, so I thought a quick update was in order.First of all, the 5th Galaxy Zoo paper has been submitted, presenting the initial results of our study of Hanny’s Voorwerp; [...]

Old GZ Forum – Data Update

As many of you are aware, over the past 9 weeks I have been trying to retrieve some of the old Galaxy Zoo Forum data that was lost at the beginning of June. A massive outage at ThePlanet.com TX, USA, where the Forum was previoulsy hosted, caused damage to the web server HDD and has resulted [...]