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    April 28th, 2009

    By Alice

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    Earlier this month Galaxy Zoo took part in the 100 Hours of Astronomy, which was extremely successful and enjoyable too! Since then, several zooites have remarked that it was great fun and a real inspiration to classify more. So just for today, we decided we’d like to have another go.

    Galaxy Zoo was inspired by zookeeperKevin’s PhD thesis a few years ago. Trying to find those blue ellipticals, he was running a program separating spiral from elliptical. He classified 50,000 galaxies in one week. ZookeeperChris was later heard to say in a lecture: “A PhD student will classify 50,000 galaxies before telling you exactly what you can do with the other 850,000.” (The rest is history.) Among other units, this incredible achievement was given a name, “The Kevin-Week”.

    Today is Kevin’s 28th birthday. To celebrate, Arfon has set us up a Zoonometer again for today. We have a very special target: How many Kevin-weeks can we collectively click our way to on Kevin’s birthday? Let’s find out.

    Thank you all for your inspiration, and Arfon for his kindness and technical genius – and happy birthday Kevin!

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  • 16 Comments

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. fluffyporcupine
      Apr 28th

      Happy birthday Kevin!

    2. Half65
      Apr 28th

      Happy birthday Kevin ! :)

    3. weezerd
      Apr 28th

      Happy birthday Kevin!

    4. Hanny
      Apr 28th

      Heh, I’d like to add a happy birthday too, Kevin! Hope you’ll have a nice day. And thank you Arfon, for the technical support!! Now let’s classify… :D

    5. stellar190
      Apr 28th

      Happy birthday kevin! :)

    6. Pat
      Apr 28th

      Happy Birthday Kevin!!! :)

    7. graham
      Apr 28th

      Happy birthday Kevin!

    8. Randa
      Apr 28th

      Happy Birthday Kevin.

    9. Jim
      Apr 28th

      Very Happy Birthday Kevin!!!

      Now, seriously, can someone show me, tell me, where are we supposed to be clicking. Help. email me at jportermi@earthlink.net

    10. Alice
      Apr 29th

      Jim, try this: http://www.galaxyzoo.org/classify Have you got an account?

    11. Rod Guice
      Apr 29th

      (imagine the Beatles song)
      Na na na na na na na na (notes played on air guitar).
      I hear it’s your birthday!
      Na na na na na na na na (more notes played on air guitar).
      Happy birthday to you!

      No matter what age you’ve reached, you’re very young compared to the galaxies we classify! Have a great day!

    12. Anonymous
      Apr 30th

      A little late from me, but, Happy Birthday Kevin. All he best :)

    13. zeus2007
      May 2nd

      I’m sorry I’m late, Happy B-Day Kevin!

    14. galaxygirl445
      May 4th

      Happy Birthday Kevin :)

    15. GailP
      May 8th

      Happy Belated, Kevin! Sorry I missed the celebration.

      So how did it go?

    16. مملكة ملوك
      Nov 2nd

      Happy birthday kevin!

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