It’s been 19 months since the launch of the original Galaxy Zoo. That week was ridiculous – my main memory is of incredulous laughter as the number of users and classifications climbed and climbed and I, and the rest of the team, realised what we had on our hands.
Since then, we’ve made a lot of [...]
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I’m on top of a mountain in Spain; if you’d like to join me on my observing run then I’ll be posting updates on the Galaxy Zoo Blog.
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Here’s my talk from yesterday :
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I’m in Cardiff, for the dot astronomy conference organised by Rob Simpson of the Orbiting Frog blog. It should be an interesting few days, and I’ll try and keep you up to date here. I’ve just given the first talk – about Galaxy Zoo and our plans for the future – and you can watch [...]
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Having been gently prodded by Nereid in the comments to my previous post on the topic, I want to say a lot more about scientific reporting. The reason for the delay in this post, by the way, is probably obvious but the screenshot below – which shows the front page of CNN.com yesterday afternoon says [...]
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I’m still in the US, where we’ve been filming pieces for the next few Sky at Nights. I need to write up the amazing two days we spent in mission control for Phoenix, but for now the Discovery blog has details of the Large Binocular Telescope and the alien-hunting Allen Telescope Array.
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I’m shortly off of my travels again, recording interviews for Sky at Night in California and Arizona. On the way back, I’m visiting Pamela of astronomycast fame to work on a few projects. If anyone lives in or around St Louis, U.S.A., then you might be interested, nay, delighted, to know that you can come [...]
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I wrote yesterday about the somewhat surprising link that’s been discovered between the tightness of a galaxy’s spiral arms (the angle at which they uncurl) and the size of the black hole that lurks in their centre. I managed to catch up with Marc Seigar, and the interview is now up on Youtube
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One of the most intriguing of the morning press releases is now being described by Marc Seigar from the University of Arkansas, who has been trying to weigh the supermassive black holes that lurk at the centre of galaxies. Ideally, you’d do this by measuring the speed of the gas rotating around it, but that’s [...]
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I know I promised you a Mercury post. I’ve been distracted by this thing, discovered by one of the Galaxy Zoo users, Hanny.
The question is – what is it? We’re applying to use the VLA to find out, and the deadline’s tonight.
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