Announcing: Jan 13 press conference on Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout results

I’m Nico, a PhD student with the Galaxy Zoo team, and I have an exciting announcement. About a year ago I wrote that classifications on the Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout project had just finished. Now, with the first results nearing publication, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has chosen Clump Scout to present its findings at an official press conference on Thursday, January 13 from 4:15-5:15pm Eastern Time (or 9:15-10:15pm GMT for our UK visitors). We’re very excited to finally share these results with our volunteers!

The press conference is free and open to all, so if you took part in the project, we encourage you to tune in to learn more about where your efforts have gone. (Or, if you’ve never heard of the Clump Scout project before, now is a great chance to learn!) I’ll spend a few minutes explaining why we created the project, and describe a few clues we’ve found as to the last 10 billion years of galaxy evolution. There will also be 4 other speakers presenting about their own citizen science work, so it will be a thorough tour of what’s going on in people-powered astronomy today.

We hope you can join us!

How to join:

You watch via YouTube live stream on AAS’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AASPressOffice

PS. For more galaxies at the AAS (although not Galaxy Zoo directly), also see our PI Karen Masters talking about the completion of the MaNGA Galaxy Survey, Tue 11th Jan in the 2.15pm ET Press Conference. MaNGA the survey Galaxy Zoo: 3D was designed to help analyse; and look out for more crowd-sourcing projects to come from this complex data now it’s all publicly available, as well as much more use of the Galaxy Zoo: 3D classifications.