With all of the buzz about the Galaxy Zoo Zoonometer™ and our challenge to reach 1 million clicks in 100 hours it’s easy to forget that these 1 million clicks are just part of a much larger total.
Late yesterday afternoon we smashed through the 20 million mark and the Zooite who has the honour of [...]
So we’re well on our way now to our target of 1 million clicks in 100 hours. Not that we want to get complacent though – keep classifying everyone!
Being part of Galaxy Zoo gives me the opportunity to combine web technologies with science, a perfect mix! When we came up with the idea of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve had a busy Saturday morning updating the Galaxy Zoo site with some new bits and bobs. Probably the most useful change deployed this morning is that each question now has a help section for you to check exactly what we’re asking and some examples to help guide you. If you’re struggling with a question [...]
I’ve just updated the ‘My Galaxies’ section of the Galaxy Zoo site. Significantly you can now see all of the favourites that you have added in order of most recent first. I’ve also added a history of your galaxies (but not what classification you made yet!) I’m pleased to say that the [...]
As some of you may already know I’m relatively new to the Galaxy Zoo team having joined in January. One of the main reasons I was brought on board the team was to help plan and implement a more scalable web architecture for the future.
Galaxy Zoo 2 launched on Tuesday and was our first live [...]
This morning we’ve added back in the ‘My Galaxies’ feature to the Zoo 2 site. The ‘My Galaxies’ page increases significantly the load on our servers and so we had to disable it very soon after launch due to the sheer number of people coming to the site. So that we can reintroduce ‘My Galaxies’ [...]
Some of you may have noticed that we had some unscheduled downtime this evening. At about 18:40 our database server failed and due to the sheer number of classifications that you have all been making it took significantly longer than expected to restore the database from backup. I can assure you that we [...]
So Zoo 2 is live and we’re VERY busy at the moment – working on making things faster now….