Community Blog

by 42jkb scientist, admin

We are looking for around 200 words (can be more or less) describing the experience people have had with Radio Galaxy Zoo.

What do you like about the project?
Found anything interesting?
Is there a nice image you liked?
Learned something new?

We would like to post your description on the (Radio) Galaxy Zoo Blog to share with others. If this is something that you would be interested in doing, please send an email to Julie Banfield (julie.banfield @csiro.au) or reply to this post. We will place these on the blog at first come first serve basis around once a month either as a group of descriptions or on their own. You can always add an image or two.

**We will author them as your Zooniverse ID. If you rather your full name or to be anonymous please let us know.

Posted June 19, 2014 5:00 AM

by 1001G

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Jean Tate gave a great astronomy response to my post 1 RADIO SOURCE GALAXY & SPIRAL GALAXIES.

I love the SDSS ones which also include at least one nearby galaxy/faraway galaxy overlap, at least one MW star, and an asteroid, as this one does ... from right at home here in our own solar system, all the way out to ~5 billion years (more?) or so away, with many waystations between, all in the one image ... imagine that

The image shows why the universe fascinates us.

Posted June 25, 2014 5:44 PM

by 42jkb scientist, admin in response to 1001G's comment.

Thank you. I will add this to the blog entries.

Posted June 26, 2014 12:27 AM

by zutopian in response to 1001G's comment.

Jean wrote an "Object of the Day" article (GZ forum) about ARG0002m31.:
http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=281941.msg661610 #msg661610

She created an image with contours and did following comment.:

The apparent source of the strong radio emission seen by FIRST is SDSS J103250.26+155116.8, which SDSS thinks is a STAR.

PS: I mentioned it also in the Radio Zoo discussion about ARG0002m31.:
1 RADIO SOURCE GALAXY & SPIRAL GALAXIES.: http://radiotalk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BRG0000002/discussions/DRG00006oj

Posted July 2, 2014 6:53 AM

by 1001G

ARG0001c2r Forming Galaxy that looks like a cloud it is a radio source . Is it the first stage of formation of a Galaxy.
Also there is a older formed Galaxy not far from it.

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SDSS J170250.17+364224.3

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Posted July 22, 2014 7:01 PM

by ivywong scientist, admin

Brilliant! Do we know if these 2 galaxies have similar redshifts/distances? What fascinates me about the 1st figure is that blue flocculent structure above the blue star-forming galaxy..... It looks real to me but this will probably need deeper observations and investigations.

Posted August 7, 2014 5:51 AM

by 1001G

J170250.17+364224.3 STAR FORMING GALAXY 0.033 SHIFT

SDSS J170251.62+364006.1 LARGER GALAXY 0.034 SHIFT

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