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As the AAS coverage continues to trickle on, Pamela has posted a long interview she did with Jordan (from Galaxy Zoo) and I. You can catch the whole thing here; I think Pamela may win the award for the hardest opening question of all time.
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The AAS group liveblog over at Astronomy Cast has done a fantastic job of providing all the news from the conference. Phil Plait caught up with me earlier and asked me about the Galaxy Zoo cosmology results we announced today; you can see the result below. I think we should have found more light, and [...]
Read More...This morning has been insanely busy; rewriting my talk which I’m giving tomorrow in the light of the results of the Galaxy Zoo bias study hasn’t helped. (You can see the latest here.) I did manage to sit in on an excellent press conference this morning though; the highlight was the results from the STAGES [...]
Read More...I’ve just made my first post on the new Galaxy Zoo blog, which is designed to keep you up to date with the process of writing the first papers. A roundup of the 2007 coming on this site tomorrow…
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This is the 3.5m WIYN telescope on Kitt Peak.
In April, 5 nights of time will be spent following up work done by the good people of the Galaxy Zoo. The actual project is rather unexpected; early in the project Bill Keel of the University of Alabama appeared on our forum, asking people to keep an [...]
Read More...Seven of the Galaxy Zoo team are gathered in Portsmouth today for our first science meeting. The plan is to go through all of the hard work we’ve been doing to analyise the results and see what we agree on – and what we don’t. Sadly we can’t invite the more than 100,000 people who [...]
Read More...It’s been a bit quiet round here, hasn’t it? I didn’t mean to disappear quite so suddenly, but I’ve been thoroughly distracted this summer. Still, I’m back now and I’ve got lots to write about, including trips to JPL, Jodrell and Birr and a guest blog exploring CERN which will be coming up later this [...]
Read More...The link from the main site should be up shortly, but the Galaxy Zoo Forum is now open for business.
(You’ll also shortly be able to revisit galaxies classified in the last week).
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Can it really be a week? The launch of Galaxy Zoo will live long in the memory for sheer strangeness as the sudden realisation that what for a while has seemed like a crazy idea was actually going to work.
Let me back up a bit. Some of the work I’ve been doing here in Oxford [...]
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I’ll post a proper update about Galaxy Zooand more amazing images later, but I wanted to respond to those of you clamouring for extra buttons. For now, the task is to get a sense of how the galaxies fit into these two major classifications. They’re used almost routinely in the literature as shorthand for two [...]