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By: Find your own Supernovae! | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

Find your own Supernovae! | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:53:39 +0000

[...] posted before about Galaxy Zoo, and see also Phil Plait’s posts introducting the zoo, oncounterintuitive results and what do to if you find something [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:33:57 +0000

RBH Says:
(on 11 Jul 2007 at 10:33 pm)
Gack. URL: http://tinyurl.com/36sf24

Those galaxies are called “The Mice” or NGC 4676.

By: bcb

bcb — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:00:07 +0000

“delphi_oteon 16 Jul 2007 at 9:36 pm
Their website makes the claim that human brains are â€œbetter than a computer can ever beâ€ at pattern recognition. Iâ€™d be very careful saying something like that.”

I think that
maybe they need more computers as many as human…:)

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What If You Find Something Totally Cool? « UDreamOfJanie — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:28 +0000

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What If You Find Something Totally Cool? « Kissing Corporal Kate — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:01:37 +0000

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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:41:57 +0000

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By: Jakob

Jakob — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:16:31 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Discover new galaxies!. Thanks for informative article

By: Michael Preiss

Michael Preiss — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:56:01 +0000

Eric Aitala says:
@ July 16th, 2007 at 10:12 pm

“Beware the giant space amoeba!!”

Looks like a snake with a huge alligator head. It also looks like a pleisiosaur sans fins and teeth. How’s that for pattern recognition?

By: Eric Aitala

Eric Aitala — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:12:23 +0000

Beware the giant space amoeba!!

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=166.11002905&dec=4.83432659

A merger… but an odd one. Look at the gap near the bulge.

Dr Eric

By: delphi_ote

delphi_ote — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:36:06 +0000

Their website makes the claim that human brains are “better than a computer can ever be” at pattern recognition. I’d be very careful saying something like that.

By: Lofty Walrus

Lofty Walrus — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:24:42 +0000

Found one with a ring around it! This is so cool.

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=588009365862547525

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:10:01 +0000

This is tons of fun. Beats the stuffing out of sudoku and solitare.

By: Draken

Draken — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:48:16 +0000

Well hi, have been reading here a lot since I first found this site and this is my first post.

Was doing my weekly read though and found this and I love it! But the last thing I need is something else thats addictive, all those pretty galaxies…Thanks for the link BA!

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:30:32 +0000

Just found a great flickr site for sharing finds.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/galaxyzoo

By: Ralph

Ralph — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:09:39 +0000

hmz like to know what kinda star this is, its verry bright and PINK?!?!

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587742590405509321

By: Michael Preiss

Michael Preiss — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:51:29 +0000

Melusine says:

@ July 16th, 2007 at 12:24 am
What a pretty blue spiral whipping around like a hurricane (So to speak. Itâ€™s NGC 6001. Looks better when you click on the small picture.

That’s gorgeous! Reminds me of July 4th pinwheel fireworks.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:24:22 +0000

What a pretty blue spiral whipping around like a hurricane (So to speak.) It’s NGC 6001. Looks better when you click on the small picture.

Michael Preiss, I had few of those tonight – sort of twisted, spread out galaxies with no discernible center. I wish I had an expert sitting next to me – I have too many questions!

Must. Stop. Now.

By: Michael Preiss

Michael Preiss — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:32:29 +0000

And now for something completely different… Looks like this poor galaxy had an altercation a long, long, time ago and lost. Very, very, badly.

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587733398116434200

What would happen to our solar system if that was our galaxy and we were in the half that was missing? How long would it take for us non-astronomers to know anything was amiss? Dr. BA?

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:20:01 +0000

Crux Australis Says:
Melusine, I was told that I got 13 out of 15 right on the qualifying test (not which ones, though).

Yeah, when I took it after Phil posted this, it just said something like you got AT LEAST 8 right, you passed! Then I saw that people later got scores, so I took it again in the morning and it gave me, I think, 12 out of 15. Took it again and again until I got them all right. Blue blobby galaxies are the worst! It helps when you haven’t been on the computer for hours prior and your eyes are fresh. It’s so addictive. I just hope all this public involvement helps them. I especially like trying to figure out the rotations…and well, looking at astrophotos.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:58:05 +0000

Melusine, I was told that I got 13 out of 15 right on the qualifying test (not which ones, though).

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:17:35 +0000

What a cool and addictive site.

I just got this submitted as an article on Slashdot (my first!), so hopefully there will be a lot of extra geek brain power thrown at this project for a while.

Thanks, BA, for bringing astronomy within reach of the common people.

By: CCo

CCo — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:16:59 +0000

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=116.72107173&dec=39.02195093

Another spectacular merger, this time between a spiral and elliptical galaxy.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:59:49 +0000

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=193.84142664&dec=58.34410822
what a beauty

By: CCo

CCo — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:40:40 +0000

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=213.44051502&dec=8.21870234

Wow, check out that incredible merger!

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