As you may already have heard, Galaxy Zoo has new images in it this week!
You may remember my post in September which described how we’ve added images from SDSS’s ‘Stripe 82′. This is an area of the Sloan survey that has been repeatedly imaged to do things like supernova detection (much like that in Supernova [...]
As Chris blogged yesterday, Galaxy Zoo now contains colour images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Stripe 82.
The new Stripe 82 images you see are made of an addition of approximately 50 ordinary SDSS images, which means we can see things about 2 magnitudes fainter (about 7 times less light). It’s only over a relatively [...]
Anyone who has been classifying galaxies today may well have noticed a big change in the Zoo; the addition of some new images that don’t look quite like the previous set. These new galaxies come from a very special part of the sky known to the Sloan team as “Stripe 82″.
Over the first seven years [...]