Galaxy Zoo Blog

Galaxy Zoo goes to Bristol part 2: Alice’s Talk

Following Alice’s talk in Bristol, we’ve got an audio recording of it available here.

Galaxy Zoo in the News: Science Magazine

Galaxy Zoo made it into one of the lead article (subscription req’d) in Science Magazine on the International Year of Astronomy and the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach (where many Zooites met up). From the article:
Because anyone can search the sky, astronomy remains the most democratic of sciences–perhaps the only one in which an amateur can still [...]

Galaxy Zoo Goes to Bristol

Slightly short notice, but if you’re in or near Bristol, UK, there are two Galaxy Zoo talks taking place this Friday, 23rd January. They’re at the Bristol Astronomical Society, but anyone is welcome to attend.
One talk will be Rick Nowell, about the peas – which are becoming a remarkably large topic; more here, here and [...]

Calling A Level students : Want to be a Zookeeper?

This post is only relevant to UK students taking their ‘A’ levels – sorry everyone else
When I was 17, I spent a summer working with Stuart Clark. Stuart’s now a full-time writer, but at the time he was still a researcher at the University of Hertfordshire. The ‘work’ I got done that summer – playing [...]

eGZeLENS update: HST pre-imaging

Hello there!
My name is Phil Marshall, and I’m a postdoctoral research fellow in astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My main research interests are in finding new strong gravitational lenses, and then using them to make accurate measurements of galaxy masses. I am involved with several semi-automated lens searches, using data from the [...]

Kevin and Jordan at AAS

Here is another photo from the AAS meeting last week. Georgia Bracey took this photo, catching Kevin and I in the act of working during the reception before the opening of the International Year of Astronomy:
 
What can I say? I was curious about the peas, and Kevin had some results to show me.
After this photo [...]

Galaxy Zoo meetup in New York, February 7th

Kevin and I have been talking for a while about getting a Galaxy Zoo meetup on the U.S. East Coast. While we were at AAS, we had a chance to compare schedules, and we are both free on Saturday, February 7th. We’re planning a meetup that day in New York, which is about halfway between [...]

Galaxy Zoo amongst “Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008″

Universe Today recently announced their Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008, as voted for by their readers.
The Galaxy Zoo team were very pleased to find that Galaxy Zoo, and more specifically the discovery of Hanny’s Voorwerp, came in at number 8. This puts us in such fine company as exoplanet imaging, the Phoenix Mars Lander [...]

An introduction

Hello.  I’m new around here and I thought I should introduce myself.  My name is Arfon Smith and I’m the latest addition to the Galaxy Zoo team.  I’ve been appointed to the role of technical lead and I’m looking forward to working with Chris in Oxford on some really exciting new stuff for future versions [...]

As promised – photos!

Chris giving his talk while wearing a pink shirt:

Kevin with his opening slide, which generated some applause from the audience:

Chris and Kevin take joint questions after both talks: