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. [...]
Check it out: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091026.html
Thanks to all of you who submitted entries, your creativity amazes us every day.
Thanks for everyone’s work – both papers should soon be appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society