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”!
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. [...]
Our pea hunting observing run is over and, as you will have gathered from previous posts, it has gone very well. We travelled back from La Silla to Santiago last night, for another brief stay at the ESO Guesthouse. Now I’m about to get on the plane back to the UK.
We are thrilled with how [...]
The Chilean Pea hunt continues…
You may have noticed the Galaxy Zoo blog was down over the weekend. Well, it wasn’t the only one to be experiencing technical difficulties. On Sunday night we unfortunately lost four hours of observing time to technical gremlins. First we tried to use a new filter, which resulted [...]