• Random

    Posted on August 18th, 2010

    Written by Chris

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    A Grand Bold Thing : The story of the Sloan

    In many ways, the team here at Galaxy Zoo are freeloaders, making the most (with your help) of the hard work of the astronomers who work hard for years to design, build and operate the telescopes that produce the images for us to classify. The project’s first two incarnations were based entirely on images from [...]

  • OOTW

    Posted on July 9th, 2010

    Written by stellar190

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    Black Holes with an Appetite

    Black Holes with an Appetite

    The centres of these galaxies can be so energetic that they can outshine the galaxy itself!

  • OOTW

    Posted on July 2nd, 2010

    Written by stellar190

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    From Blob to Collisional Ring

    From Blob to Collisional Ring

    This ring galaxy has a Z (redshift) of 1.432, so we’re seeing it as it was 9.15 billion years ago, just under 5 billion years after the big bang!

  • OOTW

    Posted on June 25th, 2010

    Written by stellar190

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    Binary Star System in Cetus

    Binary Star System in Cetus

    80 Cet is in fact locked gravitationally to another star both orbiting around each other on their common centre of mass.

  • Site News

    Posted on April 23rd, 2010

    Written by Robert Simpson

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    Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

    Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

    The Galaxy Zoo project has evolved once again – now we are classifying galaxies from the incredible Hubble Space Telescope! Galaxy Zoo: Hubble is the new incarnation of the Galaxy Zoo project and it continues to allow you to help astronomers with real scientific research by asking you to to visually classify galaxies online.
    The original Galaxy Zoo [...]

  • Site News

    Posted on October 6th, 2009

    Written by BillKeel

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    Galaxy Zoo and the Nobel Prize

    No, no one on the Zoo team has won the Nobel Prize. But there are interesting connection with the 2009 Physics prizes, just announced by the Swedish Academy. The prize was shared by Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and Charles Smith. Kao’s work contributed greatly to making fiber optics feasible for reliable transmission of signals at [...]