Introducing Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II 

Hi everyone, If you’ve been following Galaxy Zoo for a while, you may remember the Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout project. Now, Clump Scout is back, and we need your help! The first Clump Scout projectBack in 2019, we asked you to help us find giant star forming clumps (or just “clumps”) in nearby galaxies. With your help, the first Clump Scout project was a resounding success.

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A first Galaxy Zoo:Rubin project

We’re delighted to announce the first Galaxy Zoo workflow to include images from the NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, using galaxies drawn from its first Data Preview.  First look image showing the diversity of galaxies we can expect from the Vera C Rubin's LSST survey. The new workflow went live on the site just now, but with only 10,359 subjects it won’t stick around for long, so do jump in and get classifying.

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Investigating How Type of Galactic Bar Impacts Bar Quenching

We are happy to announce the acceptance of the latest science team paper making use of Galaxy Zoo classifications (the image below is a link to the paper). Also see this list of all Galaxy Zoo Science Team Publications (which is mostly complete, usually!). This work was led by (at the time) undergraduate student Petra Mengistu (since Fall 2024 in the PhD Program at UCSC).

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Here be SDRAGNS! Results from Radio Galaxy Zoo and Hubble’s Zoo Gems

It’s taken a while to get this finished, but I am happy to say that our paper combining Radio Galaxy Zoo and Hubble data on the rare spiral galaxies with large double radio sources (also know…

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People power in action

Zooniverse is a platform enabling citizen scientists to contribute to research, and it may just form the foundations of a new scientific community

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Looking for bars in faraway galaxies

Hi all! My name is Tobias Géron, I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto. I've been using Galaxy Zoo for a few years now to study bars in galaxies. Bars seem to be very common structures in the present-day Universe, with roughly half of all disc galaxies having a bar. Bars are also thought to influence their host galaxies in all kinds of fun ways (e.g.

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Announcing the Galaxy Zoo JWST project!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with ~300,000 galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying them on Galaxy Zoo. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed over time, and what caused these changes and why.

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GZ Euclid

This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈

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Galaxy Zoo in Japanese

この度、Galaxy Zooは日本語でも参加できるようになりました（すでに中国語、フランス語、スペイン語、ハンガリー語、そして英語で利用できます）。ボランティアの翻訳者である @InoSenpai (イノ先輩)に感謝します。これで、本プロジェクトを日本語話者にも広めていけるようになりました。 We're delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo is now available in Japanese (in addition to Chinese, French, Spanish, Hungarian and English). Thanks to the efforts of volunteer translator @InoSenpai we can now bring Galaxy Zoo to a wider audience of Japanese speakers.

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Euclid first data release

The team behind the Euclid observatory released their first data yesterday, and Zooniverse projects and participants were especially prominent. Euclid’s mission is to make a map of the whole sky wh…

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Researchers and volunteers unite to uncover spectacular space

New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped the evolution of the Universe. Oxford University researchers have been at

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Galaxy Zoo featured in first Euclid data release!

We’re delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo (and you!) are featured in the first Euclid data release announced today! Back in August 2024, we launched an intensive Euclid campaign where 9,976 of…

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Zooniverse

The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.

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Slow strong bars affect their hosts the most

Hi everyone, my name is Tobias. I finished my PhD at the University of Oxford almost a year ago now, and I am currently a postdoc at the University of Toronto. I work a lot with Galaxy Zoo classificat...

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