Galaxy Zoo Blog

Get in the queue! – Scaling Galaxy Zoo

Did anyone notice that ‘My Galaxies’ got a little out of date earlier this week?  If you did then you might like to hear a blow-by-blow technical explanation over here.
Cheers
Arfon

Galaxy Zoo Supernovae from a technical standpoint

I’ve just finished writing up some of the more technical details associated with our recent supernova hunt.  If you’re interested in how it all worked behind the scenes then head over here…
Cheers
Arfon

Merge complete!

We’ve had a busy afternoon here at the Zoo working hard to merge the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Zoo forum user accounts.  I’m pleased to say that the process is now complete!
The details of the merge process have been outlined in this earlier post but basically some of you will have had your accounts merged [...]

Forums merge part deux

You may have noticed that the forums are again in maintenance mode and new registrations are disabled on the Zoo at the moment. That’s because we’re currently churning away in the background merging the accounts from both databases. For more information have a read of our earlier post We should have some [...]

If at first you don’t succeed…

So it’s been a busy 24 hours at Galaxy Zoo.  As we outlined in the earlier posts were working hard on unifying the Galaxy Zoo and Galaxy Zoo forum accounts. During the merge we had to disable the forums and new registrations on the Zoo so that we could be sure of exactly [...]

You may notice a few new things are going on around the Zoo today. From today, you should be able to log in to both Galaxy Zoo itself and the forum at the same time with a single login and password. We are also creating a single profile page, so you can edit all your [...]

I have a confession…

What was the final Zoonometer™ count?  You can find out here…

Hey why does the total keep changing?!

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 [...]

Updates updates updates…

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 [...]

Our New Infrastructure

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 [...]