Happy Birthday (& a belated announcement)
Firstly, happy 15th birthday to Galaxy Zoo and thank you to all those who have made it a success over the last decade-and-a-half. Whether you’re a regular on Talk, and original classifier, a member of...
View ArticleIn the News – Ringed Galaxies from GZ Mobile
Dear volunteers, Thanks to you, we’ve found 40,000 new ringed galaxies – about six times more than all the ringed galaxies anyone has ever found before! The Royal Astronomical Society were impressed...
View ArticleObserving bars in La Palma
As some might remember, in our last paper (which can be found here), we studied differences between weak and strong bars. One of our results was that star forming galaxies with stronger bars have...
View ArticleOur last night at the telescope
The story so far: on the first night we were able to observe until 02:00 before the weather forced us to close. The following three nights we were confined to the Residencia, the place where they keep...
View ArticleFrom Galaxy Zoo to JWST – dust and gravitational lensing
My previous post on the Zooniverse blog gave some history of how having Galaxy Zoo participants call attention to backlit galaxies led to the galaxy pair VV191 being on the schedule for observations...
View ArticleThe dawn of Galaxy Zoo’s new incarnation – Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn!
This week, Galaxy Zoo begins its latest incarnation, Galaxy Zoo: Cosmic Dawn, with tens of thousands of new galaxy images now available for you to help classify! These were taken by the Hyper...
View ArticleIntroducing Your New AI Assistant
Of all the galaxies in the sky, which should you look at first? You might have noticed that our most recent galaxies, taken by Hyper Suprime-Cam in Hawaii, have often been less detailed than our...
View ArticleTake a Peek at Some JWST Images
Many different teams of scientists are using NASA’s latest space telescope, JWST, to image galaxies so far away that they are back at the earliest time galaxies appear in the Universe. Because these...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo DESI Published
I’m thrilled to announce the release of Galaxy Zoo DESI; detailed morphology classifications for all 8.7 million well-resolved galaxies in the DESI Legacy Surveys. This is the largest detailed...
View ArticleReturn of Galaxy Zoo Mobile
Galaxy Zoo Mobile is back! This time, we have two challenges for you; understanding rings and finding gravitational lenses. Both can be accessed through the Galaxy Zoo Mobile project on the...
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