Zoo 2 now available in Polish
As Lech eloquently explains in his post, Galaxy Zoo 2 is now available in Polish. Other languages should follow soon (and don’t worry – this blog will be mostly in English!)
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Galaktyczne Zoo – Faza II już po polsku!
W wyjątkowym, bo pierwszym polskim wpisie na blogu projektu “Galaxy Zoo”, chcielibyśmy zaprosić Państwa do otwartej dzisiaj polskiej wersji językowej Zoo w fazie II.
Dzięki współpracy, jaką we wrześniu 2007 roku udało się nawiązać między Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN, programem EU-HOU i portalem Astronomia.pl, a naukowcami z programu Sloan Digital Sky Survey (w jej efekcie powstała [...] -
The universe on a carpet (live from the SDSS-III meeting)
Greetings from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III meeting in Princeton! Today is the third and final day of the meeting, where we are planning the next year of operations for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). The original SDSS, of course, provided all the beautiful galaxy pictures that you see in Galaxy Zoo; [...]
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The Peas are online
Our paper ‘Green Peas in Galaxy Zoo hits the public pre-print archive astro-ph today. If you’d like to see the paper in full detail you can download it here
(click on PDF to get the full paper).
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She’s an Astronomer: Carie Cardamone
Carie Cardamone is a graduate student in Astronomy at Yale University currently finishing up her PhD thesis. Her research focuses on the properties of distant Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies. By studying these objects she intends to further our understanding of how the growth of galaxies is tied to the growth [...]
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How big is the Galaxy Zoo collaboration now?
Every once in a while, usually at the summer AAS meeting, the Zookeepers like to play a game called “How big is our collaboration now?” Last time, it was inspired by Chris and I attending a baseball game in St. Louis, and realizing that there were enough Galaxy Zoo volunteers to fill the stadium three [...]
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Galaxy Zoo at Galaxy Wars
A research conference on interacting and merging galaxies just concluded today, hosted by East Tennessee State University under the title “Galaxy Wars: Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies”. This is a favorite topic of many in the Zoo, and, as you might expect, Galaxy Zoo was represented both in presentations and in the [...]
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Join us for the SDSS-III meeting! (says Jordan)
UPDATE: I, Jordan, am indeed the mystery blogger. Sorry about that – I forgot to click my name as the author. Thanks to Karen for solving the mystery! Also, the times are U.S. Eastern time (5 hours behind Greenwich time).
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Unveiling Hanny’s Voorwerp – one step at a time
Among the new data we have now is a set of fabulous images taken late last year from the 3.5m WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona. We were using a special rapid-guiding CCD camera, which tracks rapid motion due to the atmosphere or wind shaking the telescope, delivering even sharper images than the telescope normally [...]
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He said that they said that he said…
One of the things that really annoys me about the way in which science crops up in the media is the complete lack of disagreement that’s covered. The impression is given that somewhere there is a big book of Scientific Truth from which we all read, thus guaranteeing harmony and steady progress. The truth is [...]
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