“Up on a hill, as the day dissolves
With my pencil turning moments into line
High above in the violet sky
A silent silver plane – it draws a golden chain
One by one, all the stars appear
As the great winds of the planet spiral in
Spinning away, like the night sky at Arles
In the million insect storm, the constellations [...]
“Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time…
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.”
- Bob Dylan, “Mr Tambourine Man”
After last [...]
“Love is a burning flame
And it makes a fiery ring
Bringing hurt to the heart’s desire
I fell in the ring of fire”
- Johnny Cash
Before I venture any deeper into the mysterious world of Ring Galaxies, I thought I would give a quick introduction to the archetypal ring galaxy – the “Collisional Ring”.
Collisional Rings are formed when a smaller [...]
Ellipses are red,
Spirals are blue*
But a heart-shaped ring galaxy?
Haven’t a clue!
My name is Georgia Barrie and I’m a Masters student at Oxford University. I’m currently working on a research project with Chris Lintott, attempting to explain the formation of the elusive ring galaxies. Thanks to the work of Galaxy Zoo users, I am now in [...]
Dear all,
Many moons back, a large group of Zooites travelled to Oxford to make nearly all of a documentary about Galaxy Zoo, and especially peas, with PulseProject. It was a terrific success, and there’s just one more thing they’d like to do before it’s ready. Can you help?
Colin, who interviewed us all, wants to make [...]
As I’ve spent most of the last month in the US, and I saw a request from Curtis when I last updated the Top 10 cities for the states most infiltrated by Zooites.
In 10th place, Massachusetts
In 9th, Oregon
8th, Washington
7th, Virginia
6th, Florida
5th, Pennsylvania
4th, Texas
3rd, New York
2nd, Illinois
1st, California
I think we need to sort this by [...]
Check it out: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html
Thanks to all of you who submitted entries, your creativity amazes us every day.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day folks who have brought us so many beautiful images of our Universe are looking for a suitable entry from Galaxy Zoo. In the best forum tradition, I’ve started a thread where you can submit and discuss images that you think best represent the creative spirit of the Zoo. So [...]
Hello everyone and thank you for reading this blog post. You will read how a group of people, non-professional astronomers, from around the world got together to seek a common goal.
My name is Aida Bergés and my Galaxy Zoo name is Lovethetropics. I’m Dominican by birth but live in Puerto Rico, and I hunt Irregular [...]
Three months ago I like the rest of you had never heard of a Voorwerpje. Laihro had been working with Bill Keel on the hunting for active galaxies with ionized gas clouds, and had worked out a way to extract active galaxies from SDSS, and had the idea of using my hunting program to [...]