Interested in the Stars?

[chrisbis]

If anyone is interested in the night sky, and wants to help- have a look at these guys.

I have been involved with them for about a year now, and just received this latest new/email update. Have a read and then Use the URL if U want to go further with it.
No links, no affiliates, no cost- completely free.
Go and explore the Universe.

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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Galaxy Zoo <team@GALAXYZOO.ORG>
To: GALAXYZOOGH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Tue, 21 December, 2010 19:15:24
Subject: A Christmas present from Galaxy Zoo

Dear Galaxy Zoo

Thanks to your hard work, we've managed to classify most of the
galaxies that were in our original batch of images from the Hubble
Space Telescope. Don't worry, though, because from today there are
fresh, never before seen galaxies added to the interface at
:.galaxyzoo.org.

In addition, you'll find a new section of the website - 'Explore
galaxies' - containing a whole host of material about extragalactic
astronomy. You can get there directly via
link:://:.galaxyzoo.org/explore_galaxies. We've also added daily quiz
questions. These are used for research into learning, and we're hoping
you'll take a few moments to help us understand what you know about
galaxies.

The new images are drawn from Hubble's COSMOS: The Cosmic Evolution
Survey. These images, taken during 590 orbits of the Hubble Space
Telescope, map out a 2 square-degree region of the sky. These images
are sensitive enough to see objects almost 100 times fainter than
those that appeared in the original Galaxy Zoo. These images have been
used to map out the distribution of dark matter and the large-scale
structure of the universe. Now, thanks to you, these images can extend
our understanding of galaxy morphology out to more distant galaxies
and down to fainter nearby galaxies.

Learn more about these changes on the blog at:
link:://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/2010/12/21/new-content-new-images-a-refreshed-galaxy-zoo/

We look forward to seeing you Explore Galaxies.

Cheers

The Galaxy Zoo Team

[chrisbis]

Latest on the stars.
Milky Way Project.

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Galaxy Zoo <team@GALAXYZOO.ORG>
To: GALAXYZOOGH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: Fri, 21 January, 2011 15:11:04
Subject: Milky Way Project Update

Greetings,

The Milky Way Project has been live since December 7th and is still
going strong, taking data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and asking
you all to help us map the galaxy. If you haven't tried it out yet,
visit link:://:.milkywayproject.org.

The Milky Way project volunteers have collectively classified more
than 116,000 images. This involved marking a whopping 141,000 bubbles,
5,000 possible galaxies and 15,000 star clusters! Those are the raw
numbers. When we combine all the individual drawings we find that you
have created a catalogue of about 5,000 unique bubbles between you.
This is about ten times larger than the current best published
catalogue!

You can read more on the blog about the way we collate the data, on
the blog, at link:://blogs.zooniverse.org/mwp/2011/01/10/project-update-for-aas-217/.
The science team are all incredibly excited to begin working with your
data to create new and updated catalogues of bubbles, star clusters,
galaxies and more.

We have also created a list of the Top 10 favourite images from across
the whole project. This is a beautiful collection of images that you
can view either as a blog post at
link:://blogs.zooniverse.org/mwp/2011/01/21/your-favourite-images/ or
on Milky Way Talk at
link:://talk.milkywayproject.org/collections/CMWS00002u

We'll be in touch soon with more updates. Meanwhile, enjoy the
beautiful imagery from the Milky Way Project.


Rob and the Zooniverse Team

PS - We are planning to launch a new project in early 2011 and are
looking for beta testers. If you would like to take part in a beta
test of a new citizen science project about ancient texts, please get
in touch with us on team@galaxyzoo.org and make the subject of your
email 'Ancient Texts Beta'.

PPS - You are receiving this newsletter because you're a member of one
of the citizen science projects hosted by the Zooniverse (like Galaxy
Zoo). If you don't want to receive future emails from us, just visit
link:://:.zooniverse.org/unsubscribe and enter the email address you
signed up with to unsubscribe.

[Bayes]

This is interesting, thanks Chris. 

After watching 'Stargazing Live' recently on the Beeb I've been thinking about getting into astronomy.  No light pollution where I live, but not much clear sky either. 

[chrisbis]

A little update.


Latest email sent to me by Project Galaxy Zoo

Subject: Got any ideas for the Zooniverse?

Dear Zooniverse volunteer,

We normally write to you when we have news of a new project, but this
email is a little different. We thought that you'd want to know that
we've opened the doors of the Zooniverse to researchers from all over
the world, via an open call for proposals, generously supported by the
Alfred P. Sloan foundation. The call and the form you need to fill in
to suggest a project is at
link:://:.citizensciencealliance.org/proposals.html

The idea is that researchers from any subject can call for help, we'll
select the best and then produce projects that will help you all make
a real difference to our understanding of the Universe. If you're a
researcher, please consider applying or encourage others at your
institution to do so. The rest of us can look forward to plenty more
distractions like Galaxy Zoo, Old Weather and all the other Zooniverse
projects.

Cheers

Chris & the Zooniverse team.