I created the Merger Checking (which now has over a million clicks), three Pea Hunts (All finished) and now an unofficial irregular galaxy classification. What started as 80 lines of Perl code is now 800 (about 50 of the original 80 lines still survive), but can now support almost any Galaxy Zoo mini-project.These [...]
A quick followup to last week’s announcement of my talk on the Zoo and Hanny’s Voorwerp – the PDF visuals and MP3 narration are now available online. Truth in advertising compels me to point out that we ended up not being able to record the talk live, so I redid the narration later. As [...]
Just a quick notice that our spin correlations paper was accepted by the Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society (where all Galaxy Zoo papers go)
We’re now inviting our loyal blog and forum readers to give us a hand in testing Zoo 2, which is in beta as they say on the internet. To take part, follow this link to complete a short survey about your experiences with Galaxy Zoo so far. The whole thing shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes, [...]
For those Voorwerp aficionados (we decided on the Forum that these might collectively be known as a Vreemdelingen Voorwerp Vrienden Vereniging or something) living in the area, take note that I’ll be giving a presentation on the Zoo and especially Hanny’s Voorwerp next week in Birmingham (Alabama, not England, although steel production has been important [...]
Zooites of the U.S. West Coast organized a meeting.
Michelle described it as follows:
“It quickly became clear to me as a newbie that most of our members are in Europe…but we still have a hefty-and lively-bunch here in America! I (code name diver4skynsea!) was perusing threads one day and stumbled across the information on Galaxy Zoo’s [...]
Today’s guest blogger is Thomas J from the Galaxy Zoo forum.
My interest in astronomy goes back almost as far as I remember. I recall, after dinner with my grandparents one afternoon, my father sitting down and telling me about the Big Bang. I was amazed at the concept and my interest was piqued, although at [...]
Previously I wrote about the ‘kickoff’ of my tour and I can tell you all now that I’m back on the road again.
I’ll be giving a few talks about ‘Galaxy Zoo and the discovery of Hanny’s Voorwerp’ soon and the first one starts tomorrow evening, at science centre ‘Explorion’, in my hometown all the way [...]