Just a quick note to let you know that the second Galaxy Zoo paper has been accepted by the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This is particularly important as it’s the paper which contains the description of our technique and analysis, so getting this peer reviewed is immensely important.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to write more about what the referee wanted, but in any case I’ll get the new version online later this week. Coming up this week, our 1st birthday – details of Zoo 2 and our plans for the future, some exciting news about lenses and more about Alice’s trip to Oxford.

Galaxy Zoo Get-Together No. 4 – Chris’s RAS Lecture in London

Greetings to all looking forward to Zoo II, and welcome to a taste of its progress. I’d like to invite you on a journey with me in spirit, to Oxford, where I went on Wednesday 11^th June. I visited Chris and Kevin at their zookeeper headquarters and had a go at classifying galaxies with a lot of bits of paper and some very thought-provoking buttons.

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