Galaxy Zoo Blog

Wednesday’s session at the Austin meeting of the American Astronomical Society will include new results from the Galaxy Zoo sample of overlapping galaxies. Extending the work in Anna Manning’s Master’s thesis, this marks an extension that helps us look ahead to comparison with the higher-redshift Hubble Zoo overlaps. Specifically, we compared visible-light data with ultraviolet [...]

The bits are still warm, having just been downlinked from Hubble overnight. There is still a good bit of processing to be done, cleaning up cosmic rays and so forth. But that said, here is our first look at SDSS 2201+11, first of the Galaxy Zoo AGN cloud galaxies (AKA voorwerpjes) to come up on [...]

Yesterday marked a milestone in the Galaxy Zoo study of AGN-ionized gas clouds (“voorwerpjes”), when we received notice that the paper reporting the GZ survey and our spectroscopic study of the most interesting galaxies has been accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. We’ve now posted the preprint online – [...]

Some of us continue to exult over the approval of our Hubble proposal to look at some of the “voorwerpjes” found through the GZ forum. These are clouds of gas ionized by an active galactic nucleus, similar to Hanny’s Voorwerp except for being smaller and dimmer (hence the Dutch diminutive form of the word). This [...]