Galaxy Zoo Red Spiral Paper Submitted
Just a quick post to let you all know that earlier this week I submitted (to MNRAS) a paper on the Galaxy Zoo Red Spirals. We decided to make this paper available right away on the arXiV, so you can...
View ArticleDo Bars Kill Spiral Galaxies?
This morning a press release went out from the Royal Astronomical Society about the Galaxy Zoo 2 paper I have previously blogged about (post about submission, arXiV link, post about acceptance).This...
View ArticleTalking about Galaxy Zoo on the Jodcast
I talk about Galaxy Zoo (specifically the red spirals and the results we had on bars in spirals) in the May 2011 Extra Edition of the Jodcast. I start talking about Galaxy Zoo about 6 minutes in. I...
View ArticleStar formation rate vs. color in galaxy groups
Toady’s guest blog is from Andrew Wetzel, a postoc at Yale University. We asked Andrew to write this blog since he and his collaborators had used the public Galaxy Zoo 1 data in their own work (that...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo at the Durham Galaxy Evolution Conference
I think I won’t get in too much trouble if I say that in my opinion the event of summer 2011 for extragalactic astronomers was a massive international conference which took place in Durham, July...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo on the "Curious" Podcast
Just wanted to put up a quick post to point out that the latest podcast from the people who run Ask an Astronomer @ Cornell discusses citizen science, and I’m interviewed on it about Galaxy Zoo stuff....
View ArticleAnother Galactic Twin
It seems that finding our Milky Way’s twin has become a bit of an industry these days. NASA/ESA have got in on the act today, releasing a press release about their favourite twin of the Milky Way, NGC...
View ArticleMy favourite colour magnitude diagram
I was embarrassed to discover today that I never got around to writing a full blog post explaining our work studying the properties of the red spirals, as I promised way back in October 2009. Chris...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo at the International Astronomical Union in Beijing, China
I’m posting this for Karen Masters, since she’s behind the great firewall. Hello from a hot and smoggy Beijing where I will be spending the next 2 weeks attending the 28th General Assembly of the...
View ArticleNew paper on Red and Blue Spirals and Ellipticals
Just a quick note to point out a new paper based on Galaxy Zoo classifications appeared on the arxiv this morning (and just accepted to MNRAS): The Differing Star Formation Histories of Red and Blue...
View ArticleThe Green Valley is a Red Herring
Great news everybody! The latest Galaxy Zoo 1 paper has been accepted by MNRAS and has appeared on astro-ph: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4814 In this paper, we take a look at the most crucial event in...
View ArticleEight Years and the 8th Most Cited Paper from Galaxy Zoo
At Galaxy Zoo we’re really proud of our publication record – 48 papers and counting, just from the team using your classifications. In academic research one of the most important numbers a published...
View ArticleEight years and 8 billion years of cosmic history
Next up in our series of eight blog posts celebrating eight years of Galaxy Zoo is this post from Tom Melvin, who was the lead author of the the first publication from Galaxy Zoo: Hubble, which looked...
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