Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

Galaxy Zoo: Hubble

Apr 23

The Galaxy Zoo project has evolved once again. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble is the new incarnation of the Zooniverse's fantastic citizen science project. The latest Galaxy Zoo project continues to allow the public to help astronomers with real scientific research by getting to to visually classify galaxies online.

Chromoscope

Chromoscope

Dec 05

Chromoscope, allows anyone to view the Milky Way and the distant Universe more easily than ever before. The site shows the sky - projected in a way that highlights the Milyk Way - in a range of wavelengths, from high-energy gamma rays through to the longest radio waves.

.Astronomy 2009

.Astronomy 2009

Nov 27

Well I can hardly believe it but the second .Astronomy conference is nearly here. Next week (Monday to Friday) 50 astronomers gather in the Lorentz Centre in Leiden to discuss all things digitally astronomical. I created and organised the first .Astronomy conference last year in Cardiff and was approached by Sarah Kendrew and Carolina Ödman shortly afterwards about doing a second event in the...

.Astronomy CAS Talk

.Astronomy CAS Talk

Nov 02

Last week I gave a talk to the Cardiff Astronomical Society, I thought I'd share it for them and anyone else that might be interested. The talk overviewed some of the interesting and fun online astronomy that is going on at the moment. I also gave a demo of several websites or services.

LookUP

LookUP

Aug 29

@lookupastro is a simple Twitter bot that when tweeted with the name of an astronomical object, will reply with its RA and declination and a link to the LookUP page. Here's the lowdown on what it is and how to use it.

Tweprints Update

Tweprints Update

Jun 18

Back in April I launched a new project called arXiv on Twitter, or just 'Tweprints'. This website collects the tweets that mention papers from the arXiv website (a pre-print server for scientific papers) and organises and presents them for the reader.