Comments on: GalaxyZoo First Anniversary

GalaxyZoo First Anniversary

flug — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:37:06 -0800

Today is the first birthday of Galaxy Zoo. The largest astronomical collaboration in history, Galaxy Zoo has enlisted nearly a 150,000 volunteers to help classify over a million galaxies and released four science papers. It's made a number of interesting discoveries such as a large number of ring galaxies, Hanny's Voorwerp, and a large number of visually (but not physically) overlapping galaxies. You can help classify galaxies or classify galaxy mergers. Don't miss the visual catalog of over 250 Objects of the Day--pretty much every one of them stunning.

By: flug

flug — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:41:21 -0800

(previously)

By: steef

steef — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:17:01 -0800

Honk if you ♥ Hanny's Voorwerp.

By: edd

edd — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:50:31 -0800

Must say at this point, a year on, when I heard about it and posted it I wasn't involved - I'd not heard of it until it was released to the public. But now I am fairly heavily, so I obviously couldn't post it again. The response did absolutely floor everyone, and continues to do so. Zoo 2 is being worked on, with ideas for Zoo 3 and further spin-offs in the works, so there'll be more birthdays to come.

By: sindark

sindark — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:51:30 -0800

The Economist has a good article about the project and the voorwerp.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:52:54 -0800

I like classifying galaxies as a way to kill time while I mine asteroids in EVE Online. Space, man.