Thanks to forum user milk_n_cookies for finding an appropriate galaxy for the holiday – the Turkey Galaxy:
(the legs are to the top left – click for a larger view)
Here is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data for The Turkey Galaxy (official name SDSS J033009.27-011137.2).
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, around the world – we are thankful [...]
We have issued a press release describing the exciting simultaneous discovery of a significant population of red spiral galaxies by both the Galaxy Zoo and Space Telescope A901/902 Galaxy Evolution Survey (STAGES) projects. These unusual galaxies are found mainly in the outskirts of galaxy groups and clusters, and appear to be a missing link [...]
Hot on the heels of the acceptance of our initial paper looking at the environmental dependence of morphology and colour, here’s another one considering similar questions, but using a very different approach.
The first author is Ramin Skibba, a friend of the Galaxy Zoo team, who is an expert in a mysterious analysis tool called ‘mark [...]
The wheels of science sometimes seem to turn very slowly. It was back in May when, after several months of work, we submitted a paper which investigates how the morphology and colour of galaxies varies depending on where in the universe they live. Earlier this week, exactly six months later, the paper [...]
We’re halfway through our second observing run to follow up overlapping-galaxy pairs (and it is still a lot warmer than that picture from Spain looks in the last blog entry!) . Anna and I arrived yesterday at Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson, Arizona. She got here at lunchtime, and I didn’t make it [...]
More good news for the Zoo arrived this week. As Bill prepares for our next observing run on top on Kitt Peak in Arizona, we received an email that we’ve been awarded time on the giant 30m radio dish of the IRAM observatory above Granada for not one, but two Zoo projects. The first is the [...]