Green Valley: The Town Too Good To Die
I swear we are consistently trying to keep our live hangouts to about 15 minutes. We have so far failed at keeping to time, but hopefully also succeeded in the sense that we only run over because...
View ArticleGalaxy 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...
View ArticleQuench Boost: A How-To-Guide, Part 2
It was amazing how quickly the new Quench classifications were completed. We posted them on Friday and you were already done by Sunday morning. Wow, that’s awesome! This means we can turn our full...
View ArticleQuench Boost: A How-To-Guide, Part 3
I’m very happy to be posting again to the How-To-Guide. We’ve made a number of updates to Quench data and Quench Tools. Before I launch into Part 3 of the Guide, here are the recent updates: The...
View ArticleEvolutionary 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...
View ArticleGalaxy Zoo Continues to Evolve
Over the years the public has seen more than a million galaxies via Galaxy Zoo, and nearly all of them had something in common: we tried to get as close as possible to showing you what the galaxy would...
View ArticleExplaining clustering statistics we use to study the distribution of Galaxy...
I’ve used some statistical tools to analyze the spatial distribution of Galaxy Zoo galaxies and to see whether we find galaxies with particular classifications in more dense environments or less dense...
View ArticleBayesian View of Galaxy Evolution
The Universe is pretty huge, and to understand it we need to collect vast amounts of data. The Hubble Telescope is just one of many telescopes collecting data from the Universe. Hubble alone produces...
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