Alice in Galaxyland

I'd been wondering about emission spectra for a while. To summarise it, what happens is this: electrons exist in "orbits" rou...

Whatever you do . . . Where do people get the ideas for things like this? Hat tip: Stellar .

One of the ways in which astronomy (and, in my humble opinion, galaxy astronomy especially) is revoltingly lucky compared to a lot of scien...

Stellar is having her time wasted by CGP Physics from the looks of things. Here is a GCSE Physics question she has to answer: "Tom dec...

I got punched in the throat a few weeks ago. No, not literally, but by a piece of literature: not even a book, but a play by Michael Frayn ...

The first name thought up for Galaxy Zoo was "Galaxy Safari". Astronomy is like a journey sometimes - through space and time, sto...

To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower . . . . . . take not only Blake's advice , but now that this is 2009, fo...

My signature on the Galaxy Zoo Forum is a quote from Einstein: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understandin...

This month, there is a 4 page spread in the Astronomy Now magazine about Galaxy Zoo 2. Sadly, it's not available online, but it's w...

. . . classifications were achieved during the 100 Hours of Astronomy at Galaxy Zoo. Yep - in 4 days, we got two and two-thirds million gal...