Where in the world?
Bill’s been on his travels again, and will be blogging about the trip soon. In the meantime, where in the world is the GZ banner being proudly lifted aloft?
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Getting ready for some hard-X-ray observing…
As we reported earlier this month, we’ve been awarded 75 ksec (or just under 21 hours) of Suzaku time. Suzaku is a Japanese-led space telescope that observes hard X-rays. Hard X-rays have the handy property of penetrating just about everything, even the most messy gas and dust that tends to collect in the centres of galaxies and [...]
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Your new favourite galaxy
The first two editions of Galaxy Zoo 2’s Top Ten Galaxies produced a shocking result. Sitting proudly on top in both cases was a completely undistinguished elliptical.Things are different now; a new entry to the chart has taken first place, and so we proudly present Galaxy Zoo’s new favourite galaxy :To encourage you to make [...]
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And one Login to Rule them All
You get up, you login to the forums to check for messages. You then open another window and login to classify galaxies. Back and forth, forums and classifications, forever logging in twice.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had all your galaxies and all our forum friends in one place?
We’re working to make that happen!
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Fifth Galaxy Zoo paper accepted – Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Blue Early-type galaxies!
The peer-review process can sometimes take quite some time. One of the major motivations for doing Galaxy Zoo was to find galaxies that don’t quite fit into the neat picture of blue spirals and red ellipticals, and so one of the early Galaxy Zoo papers that we submitted was on the blue early-types/ellipticals fond by you guys. We [...]
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Galaxy Zoo on Slashdot, again
So far, Galaxy Zoo has been Slashdotted three times. It seems that by now, Galaxy Zoo has entered the web consciousness to such a degree that we get mentions like this:
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A New Zoo Adventure in Learning
The Zoo is growing – Building new exhibits, bringing in new animals, and making space for all of you to gather, talk and work. We actually can’t quite share all the cool new critters we’ll have on display. What we can tell you is we are working to integrate the forums and science so that [...]
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Fifteen million
As I was doing a backup of the Zoo 2 database this morning I thought I’d do a quick count of how many classifications we’d had so far. To my surprise we were only about 2000 short of the 15,000,000th. So there I sat, at my laptop, waiting to see who’d get the honour of [...]
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Galaxy Zoo Shop is open
The Galaxy Zoo Shop is now open for business offering some official ZOO merchandise. We are currently using Cafepress for the ordering, printing and distribution and plan to add some more designs and other products as we go on.
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Inverted images in Galaxy Zoo
There’s a new addition to Galaxy Zoo today – inverted images. As some of you may know, the Sloan images can be shown in either colour or inverted.
To switch to the inverted version of the galaxy just click on the link “Invert galaxy image”. The inverted images can be useful in bringing out hints of [...] -
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