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.

Spacebuzz

Spacebuzz

Oct 15

Stuart (Astronomy Blog) has been busy since the .Astronomy Conference and has come up with a rather nifty tool called Spacebuzz. This one-page website uses blog tags to compile a list of the current hop topics in the astronomy blogosphere.

Galaxy Zoo Says Thanks

Galaxy Zoo Says Thanks

Jun 02

Galaxy Zoo has put up a sort of thank you poster to all its volunteers. The names listed are those people who, when signing up to Galaxy Zoo, gave permission for their names to be published. There are a lot of names, including some funny ones. It's worth taking a look.

.Astronomy Conference

.Astronomy Conference

May 27

I am running a conference in September and I’m inviting astronomers and astronomy bloggers from anywhere! If you’re interested in how astronomy and the internet can combine to produce new and interesting tools for research and communication then this conference is for you.

Swiss Rocketman

Swiss Rocketman

May 15

The BBC is running a video of Yves Rossy, a Swiss man who jumped from a plane and then flew using his homemade jet-propelled glider. The image above shows a previous version of the glider, which only has two jet engines. The model flown this week used four. Mr. Rossy, has been gathering fame on the web for some time, and this stunt will no doubt be circulating for some time. Once he produces...