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Did anyone notice that ‘My Galaxies’ got a little out of date earlier this week?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
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 [...]
Did anyone notice that ‘My Galaxies’ got a little out of date earlier this week?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
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.
Just a quick post to let you all know that earlier this week I submitted (to MNRAS) a paper on the Galaxy Zoo Red Spirals.
We decided to make this paper available right away on the arXiV, so you can download it here
This paper has been in the works for quite some time (remember the BBC [...]
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 [...]
Our She’s an Astronomer series is part of the International Year of Astronomy – and what better way to be international than to provide some posts in languages other than English! Thanks to Aida for inspiring this addition – she told me in an email she had translated her interview into Spanish for her parents [...]