Find and classify your own damned galaxy....
Everyone is blogging it, and it is important, and about to fall off the scienceblogs front page
The Galaxy Zoo lets you browse Sloan Sky Survey data and do first order galaxy classification of hitherto unknown moderately faint galaxies.
This is subtly important - a frighteningly large fraction of modern astronomical data is never looked at.
Literally. The data is analysed by automated pipelines, there is a lot of it, but a lot is never looked at by actual mark I eyeballs. So we're probably missing something unexpected.
Go browse, it is summer.
"Anonymous weird galaxy" - with bonus weird type Ia supernova, in honour of Rob
More like this
So far indeed. It is blobbish and small, but interesting.
"What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?" -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." -Drew Carey
I have been GalaxyZoo-blogging, about interesting or bemusing things I've seen and recently about useful tips & techniques. Please drop by if you can, or point me to any GZ group blog.