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Help scientists understand how galaxies evolve in the Universe at galaxyzoo.org - we've classified millions of galaxies since 2007 and we are still going.

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Galaxy Zoo science team virtual meeting this morning - hearing about work towards getting Rubin images ready for classification, and a side project on identifying overlapping galaxies like @ngc3314.bsky.social #astrosci

25.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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.

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…

02.07.2025 23:49 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for the heads up - fixed for now, but looks ugly. We'll notify @zooniverse.bsky.social that something needs fixing behind the scenes too. :)

22.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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…

29.04.2025 15:04 — 👍 23    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 3

Alyssa’s work can currently be seen in Galaxy Zoo, as we classify cutouts of the stunning images she made of the CEERS JWST Survey’s NIRCam pointings. We often make our own images for the project, but hers were so beautifully made that we knew we should use them instead! 🔭

31.03.2025 17:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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. 🎈

Loving the Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social galaxy explorer tool by Mike Walmsley. Thanks to the @galaxyzoo.org volunteers for all this work! euclid.streamlit.app 🔭🧪

24.03.2025 14:22 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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.

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…

24.03.2025 12:16 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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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…

More on our Galaxy Zoo Euclid work in Daily Zooniverse today @zooniverse.bsky.social daily.zooniverse.org/2025/03/20/e... 🔭

20.03.2025 15:36 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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

Some more context on our involvement @ox.ac.uk and @zooniverse.bsky.social in yesterday's @esa.int Euclid data release - it's so cool that citizen science results from volunteers around the world were so prominent: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

20.03.2025 09:20 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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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…

We’re delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo (and you!) are featured in the first Euclid data release announced today! Read more: blog.galaxyzoo.org/2025/03/19/g... 🔭

19.03.2025 16:15 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Most of the science team is assembled in Bern this week to work hard on getting the rest of JWST images into the site, and also to do some science with the classifications.

17.03.2025 10:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Massive thanks to the Zooniverse team for managing this difficult issue, and now everything is back up we hope you will enjoy better site performance going forward. Thanks again for all the classifications.

24.02.2025 16:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All Zooniverse webpages, including Galaxy Zoo are down due to a major system issue. The Zooniverse team are working hard and hope to have this fixed and restored by Sunday.

21.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A classic valentine from longtime volunteer @penguingalaxy.bsky.social

21.02.2025 16:08 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are live with images from Euclid! Visit galaxyzoo.org and you might be the first human to ever see the images we need your help with 🔭

01.08.2024 14:12 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

You shouldn’t have to revert back to the old system! I think I haven’t filled it out from my office computer. Will check later 😊

20.05.2024 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hmm, I will need to find a device I haven’t already filled out the form from! (It’s @vrooje.net )

19.05.2024 23:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

New research from Galaxy Zoo: slow, strong bars affect their hosts the most

blog.galaxyzoo.org/2024/05/10/s...

16.05.2024 17:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2

We love a smooth galaxy whose light started travelling to us when our sun wasn't even a glint in the Milky Way's eye!

10.05.2024 15:18 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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