Today’s guest blogger is veteran forum member Geoff Roynon.
My interest in the night sky (and astronomy) goes back to the late 1950s when I was growing up in South Africa and we were blessed with dark skies. I soon learned to spot the Southern Cross and Orion and various other “star shapes” in [...]
What are these mysterious buttons? You shouldn’t have to wait too long to find out (we’re still testing…).
Hello to everyone that found Galaxy Zoo today through Gregg Easterbrook’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column on espn.com. We welcome you to Galaxy Zoo, and we are glad to have you here as we journey together to understand more about our universe.
There is also a Galaxy Zoo forum with active discussions on all topics, including people [...]
This blog post is a continuation from the previous blog post on Spin Correlations. See that post for the introduction to what comes here.
Imagine throwing a handful of spinning ballerinas into an empty space (since they are in empty space now, there is no need to for them to be ice-skaters). We can associate a thumb with [...]
This is the first of the two blogs that are dedicated to our latest paper, that we already advertised here. The topic is fascinating, but quite tough to understand for the first time. Have patience and enjoy.
Every single high-school textbook that I come across has the spinning ice-skater story hidden somewhere in the section [...]
Yesterday Chris announced that Galaxy Zoo will be on The Sky At Night this weekend and that Patrick Moore interviewed me for that episode about the discovery of Hanny’s Voorwerp. As most of you probably know, we’ve been in the press a lot lately, and I’m keeping a list of relevant links on the forum.
Today [...]
I’m delighted to confirm that this month’s Sky at Night will cover Galaxy Zoo. Patrick talked to Hanny earlier in the summer, and Bob, Kate and I spent some of last weekend talking in front of the cameras. We talked for more than an hour, and the team led by producer Jane Fletcher have spent [...]
While you are busy clicking away at the mergers, it has been straight forward to record where in the world everybody is. (This comes from your IP address).
I’ll let Anze tell you the story in more detail, but I wanted to point out that the 6th Galaxy Zoo paper is now available online.
We’ve decided to make this one public just before submitting it to the journal – you can find it here. Thanks, as always, for making this possible.
