New Features Coming to Galaxy Zoo

Dear Galaxy Zoo Community,

It’s about time to introduce myself. My name is Amit, and I joined the Zooniverse development team last fall at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Our development group has grown, which means we have exciting new Zooniverse projects in the pipeline, but we also have new features coming to Galaxy Zoo in the near future.

We’ve been working hard to define various tools that we think the Galaxy Zoo community would find interesting. Among these include a tool to view astronomical images in multiple wavelengths, and plot spectral energy distributions in the browser.

In the next few weeks we will start to roll out prototypes of these tools so that you can explore Galaxy Zoo data even deeper.

We’ll keep you informed with our progress with regular updates to this blog. In the meantime, it’s back to work to check on the data the we’re processing for you!

Amit