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Next GZ Hangout: Friday, 8th March, 15:30 GMT
Next Galaxy Zoo Hangout: Friday, the 8th of March, 2013, 3:30 p.m. GMT Want to contribute for our next hangout? Post your questions & comments below and/or feel free to tweet them @galaxyzoo or...
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Jargon Alert: Your IMF Just Messed With My SPS!
I remember going to a lecture as an undergraduate wherein my professor compared what astronomers do to a hypothetical alien crew on a fast-moving ship that can only take one photo of the Earth as it...
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Next GZ Hangout: Friday, 22nd March, 15:30 GMT
Next Galaxy Zoo Hangout: Friday, the 22nd of March, 2013, 3:30 p.m. GMT (time zones are currently weird since the US has sprung forward but Europe has not, so that’s 4:30 p.m. Central European Time,...
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Blood Oranges are just like Hubble Galaxies
Astronomers always want better images. Sometimes it’s possible right away; other times doing better requires new technology and/or waiting for the next generation of telescopes. We have both kinds of...
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Next GZ Hangout: Wednesday, 10th April, 19:00 GMT
We’re trying a new time for our hangouts to make it easier for those of our viewers in North America to tune in live. Our next live hangout will be on Wednesday the 10th of April at 7 pm GMT. That’s 9...
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Two Atoms Populate on a Dust Grain
I enjoy days where we get to use questions from the public to meander our way through the Universe. Our latest live hangout saw us discussing the latest update to the Galaxy Zoo site — made based on...
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Next GZ Hangout: Thursday, April 25th, 18:30 GMT
Our next hangout will be on Thursday the 25th of April at 6:30 p.m. GMT, which is 11:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, 2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 7:30 p.m. British Summer Time, 8:30 p.m. Central...
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Oh, Sweet Spiral Of Mine
See the video of our latest hangout here (or, if you prefer, click to download the podcast version): Spiral galaxies are seemingly endless sources of fascination, perhaps because they’re so complex and...
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Using Space Warps to Discover and Weigh Galaxies
John Wheeler once summarized General Relativity as “Matter tells space how to curve, and space tells matter how to move.” While that is a handy description, and while there have been many textbooks...
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Clicking 10 Billion Years Into The Past
Astronomers use funny units. We have the light-year, which sounds like a time but is actually a distance. There’s the parsec, a historical (but still used) unit of distance that was famously mis-used...
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Galaxy Zoo Quench – Experience the Full Scientific Process
Experience Science from Beginning to End! Classify, Analyze, Discuss, and Collaboatively Write an Article! Galaxy Zoo and other Zooniverse projects have given thousands the opportunity to contribute to...
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Next GZ Hangout: 3rd of September, 3 pm GMT
The hangouts have returned from a midsummer hiatus! Our next hangout will be Tuesday, September 3rd, at 3 pm GMT. That’s 8 am PDT, 11 am EDT, 4 pm BST, 5 pm CET, 6 pm CAT. Unfortunately I think that’s...
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What is a Galaxy? …the return
The first time I gave a public talk, I spent an hour describing why galaxy classification is fundamentally important to the study of the Universe, the origins of Galaxy Zoo, the amazing response of the...
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Evolutionary Paths In Galaxy Morphology: A Galaxy Zoo Conference
This week much of the team has been in Sydney, Australia, for the Evolutionary Paths In Galaxy Morphology conference. It’s a meeting centered largely around Galaxy Zoo, but it’s more generally about...
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