Yesterday, Galaxy Zoo launched a fun little competition to mark the approach of our 60,000,000th classification. This is the point at which we can create an amazing and powerful database from the Galaxy Zoo 2 data. To take part, all you have to do is classify some galaxies!
Galaxy Zoo goes international. Nachdem unsere Webseiten schon seit einiger Zeit in Polnisch zur Verfuegung stehen, haben wir jetzt endlich die langerwartete deutsche Version. Saemtliche Links zur Zoo-Story, zur Zoo-Wissenschaft, und natuerlich zum Klassifizieren sind jetzt in deutscher Sprache vorhanden. Falls ihr euch nicht sicher wart ob ihr die Kategorien alle richtig verstanden habt – klassifiziert die hundert tausend Galaxien doch einfach nochmal 
! Und was viel wichtiger ist: jetzt koennen endlich eure Freunde und Verwandten mitmachen, die des Englischen weniger maechtig sind. Also – viel Spass beim “clicken”!
You’ll notice the blog looks more than a little different today; we’ve given it a more modern and flexible style and incorporated our twitter stream, so that you can keep up with all the news in one place.
The changes are part of the launch of the Zooniverse the new home for Galaxy Zoo and the [...]
I’m Robert, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology working on thePalomar Transient Factory (PTF). I have arrived at the Palomar Observatory in anticipation of my two night run on the 5.1 meter Hale Telescope. The plan is to take spectra of new PTF discoveries to find out what they are, and maybe follow-up on [...]
After a couple of trial runs in August and October, the hunt for supernovae is now back – and we need your help again! As before, we’re supporting the Palomar Transient Factory in their search for supernovae, and we have an upcoming observing run, this time at the Palomar 200in telescope.
We are hoping to keep the supernova hunt website [...]
The Zoo team is expanding once again, and we’re advertising jobs in Oxford and Chicago.
The Oxford job would be suitable for a postdoc who wants to do science with the Zoo, and get involved in the technical side of things. The job advert is here.
The two Chicago positions are for education researchers, based [...]
Now that the launch of Galaxy Zoo: Understanding Cosmic Mergers has been completed, I wanted to give a personal perspective on this project.
For me, this project started twenty years ago when I was in graduate school. In my dissertation work, I modeling the tidal features of interacting galaxies. I wrote a Fortran code for [...]
We have just changed the target on the Galaxy Zoo Mergers page (http://mergers.galaxyzoo.org). The new system has a broken ring and a nearby companion. It’s a very pretty system, and it seems to be a bit easier to model than the first one we posted. For all the systems we are putting up as challenges, we do a [...]
Starting at midnight 11/24, our new site ‘Galaxy Zoo: Understanding Cosmic Mergers’ went on-line as a new project in Galaxy Zoo. In Mergers, we are working to understand the cosmic collisions that lead to galaxy mergers. Every day we will have a new target galaxy that we need your help to model. [...]
As you may already have heard, Galaxy Zoo has new images in it this week!
You may remember my post in September which described how we’ve added images from SDSS’s ‘Stripe 82′. This is an area of the Sloan survey that has been repeatedly imaged to do things like supernova detection (much like that in Supernova [...]