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How to find black holes?

The first step in trying to understand the connection between black holes and galaxies is finding them. But black holes are, well, black. In fact, you might say their blackness is their most defining feature.

So, how do you find them? It turns out that when they’re feeding on infalling gas and dust, a massive black [...]

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  • She's An Astronomer

    December 15th, 2009

    By Karen Masters

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    • She’s an Astronomer: Els Baeten
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    Zij is een astronoom: Els Baeten

    Our first She’s an Astronomer translation posted at the same time as the interview! Thanks Els.

    Els’s Interview in English.
    Els Baeten (ElisabethB) woont in België, in de oude universiteitsstad Leuven. Ze studeerde enkele jaren geneeskunde maar besloot uiteindelijk dat dit  toch niet echt was wat ze wou doen. Ze werkt nu als secretaresse in een herverzekeringsmaatschappij.
    Wanneer [...]

  • Site News

    December 13th, 2009

    By Chris

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    Welcome to the Zooniverse

    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 [...]

  • She's An Astronomer

    December 12th, 2009

    By Karen Masters

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    Zij is een astronoom: Hanny van Arkel

    Zij is een astronoom: Hanny van Arkel

    Our series of translations of the She’s an Astronomer interviews continues (Hanny’s Interview in English): Hanny van Arkel is een 25-jarige lerares, die in het zuidoosten van Nederland woont met haar Duitse Herdershond Janey. Ze speelt gitaar en op het moment geeft ze muzieklessen op een basisschool in Heerlen, waar ze ook werkt aan het ontwerpen van [...]

  • Observing, Site News

    December 11th, 2009

    By robert

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    Hello From Palomar

    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 [...]

  • Observing, Site News

    December 10th, 2009

    By Mark

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    Galaxy Zoo: Supernova is back

    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 [...]

  • Observing

    December 7th, 2009

    By Kevin

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    • Voorwerping, Part 1
    • Hubble, meet Galaxy Zoo. Galaxy Zoo, meet Hubble.
    • The Mystery of the Voorwerp Deepens!

    Voorwerping, Part 2

    We’ve been working hard at making sense of the X-ray data from Suzaku and it turns out we (that is, Shanil) will have to do a very, very careful analysis of the data beyond what is described in the handbook to be sure we understand what the data mean. In the meantime, I’ve started the [...]

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