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22 April 2010
Click on Hubble: Galaxy Zoo Now Includes HST Images
The Hubble Space Telescope is 20 years old on Saturday and, to mark this anniversary, all the world's space and astronomy fans have a chance to become part of the Hubble team. As part of the birthday celebrations NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute and the online astronomy project Galaxy Zoo are making some 200,000 Hubble images [...]
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11 April 2010
Mitch's Mystery Star, Curiouser and Curiouser
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm… that's funny…'" (Isaac Asimov) A few short years ago, Zooite Hanny van Arkel discovered Hanny's Voorwerp in an SDSS image of a galaxy ("What's the blue stuff below? Anyone?"), and a new term [...]
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25 February 2010
This Week's astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate's Best Pick
It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213 competitors, because it's pure astronomy, and because it's something you don't need a PhD to be able to do, or even a BSc. Oh, and also because Don Mizuno and co-authors may have found two, [...]
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24 February 2010
New Citizen Science Opportunity: Solar Storm Watch
Sun-worshiper alert! Now you can have the chance to help scientists spot and track solar storms and be involved in the latest solar research. The 'hottest' new Citizen Science project from the "Zooniverse" is Solar Storm Watch. Volunteers can spot storms and track their progress as they hurtle across space towards [...]
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03 February 2010
Journey Around A Black Hole – Epsilon Aurigae
Now that the Moon is absent from the early evening picture, are you ready to journey around a black hole? It's not an easy observation, but it is one that doesn't require highly specialized equipment and its not difficult to find. Can you identify Capella? Then let's rock… (...)Read the rest [...]
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27 January 2010
New Amazing Mars Flyover Videos
Doug Ellison from UnmannedSpaceflight.com has done it again… and again… and again. Here are new Mars flyover videos Doug has created from data from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Using DEM (Digital Elevation Model)– (also known as DTM Digital Terrain Model) files provided by the HiRISE team, Doug is able [...]
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20 January 2010
HiRISE Makes Your Wishes Comes True
The HiRISE science team is now taking requests! A new web tool called HiWish is now available for the high-resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which allows the public to suggest a location on Mars where the HiRISE instrument should take an image. If you don't have a particular location, you can use [...]
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13 January 2010
Measuring the Moon's Eccentricity at Home
As a teacher, I'm always on the lookout for labs with simple setups appropriate for students. My current favorite is finding the speed of light with chocolate. In a new paper recently uploaded to arXiv, Kevin Krisciunas from Texas A&M describes a method for determining the orbital eccentricity of the moon with a surprisingly low error [...]
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13 December 2009
Galaxy Zoo is Expanding to Include a Whole New "Zooniverse"
Galaxy Zoo has been an enormously successful citizen science project; so much so, that other astronomers, as well as scientists from other disciplines, have taken notice and now they want to get in on the act of having the public help make discoveries about our world and Universe. Today, the Galaxy Zoo team has [...]
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21 September 2009
Reaching Near Space For Less Than $150
A group of MIT students have launched a low-budget satellite to near space, taking images of the curvature of Earth and the blackness of space. Their approach was to use low tech, off the shelf equipment, which included a Styrofoam beer cooler, a camera from eBay, open source software and an inexpensive helium balloon [...]
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09 September 2009
Create Your Own Galaxy Mashup With New Galaxy Zoo Tool
If you haven't yet succumbed to the temptation of Galaxy Zoo, a new add-on to the popular citizen scientist project just might catapult you into joining the thousands of people who are clicking and classifying. Galaxy Zoo has now teamed up with Microsoft's World Wide Telescope to allow users to immerse themselves in [...]
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25 August 2009
Help Solve the Mystery of Epsilon Aurigae with Citizen Sky
We've written about Epsilon Aurigae before, but this mysterious star is just now beginning to dim, so we wanted to remind everyone that they can be involved in real science and help solve a mystery! The variable star Epsilon Aurigae is now beginning its puzzling transformation that happens every 27 years. "That means [...]
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13 August 2009
Hunt for Supernovae With Galaxy Zoo
How would you like to find a supernova? I can't think of anyone who wouldn't be proud to say they have spotted an exploding star. And now, perhaps you can – and without all the work of setting up your telescope and staying up all night (well, that can be fun, too, but…). [...]
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27 July 2009
Galaxy Zoo Discovers New Group of Galaxies: 'Green Peas'
Citizen scientists from the Galaxy Zoo project have discovered rare galaxies they're calling the “Green Peas.” They're small in size, bright green in color, and proficient at churning out new stars — plus, they could reveal unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe. The newly discovered galaxies appear in the image at left, from [...]
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15 June 2009
Citizen Science: Help Solve the Mystery of Epsilon Aurigae
Epsilon Aurigae is a mystery. This variable star changes in brightness over time, and is thought to be an eclipsing binary. Some things about the way that this star fades and then regains it brightness are still not fully understood by astronomers, even after over 175 years of study. But now, you [...]
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