Can we ask for your help once again? This time, we’re not just classifying galaxies, but hunting supernovae : exploding stars. Images of likely candidates captured by a telescope in California are being fed to our website at http://supernova.galaxyzoo.org/ . Astronomers are standing by in the Canary Islands to follow up on the most exciting possibilities, but first we need your help to decide where to point the telescope. Please take the time to go to the site, read the tutorial – and then start hunting.
Of course, if exploding stars don’t excite you, we still need your help with Galaxy Zoo itself over at http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ . Zoo 2 is progressing well – and we’ll have exciting news in the next fortnight – but every click is still important, and will help us make more discoveries like the ‘Peas’ – small, round, green galaxies first identified by Zooites, which appear to be the sites of the most efficient star formation in the local Universe.
Your normal Galaxy Zoo account will also now get you into the forum.
As Alice, one of our very friendly moderators says : "Any time you have a question or you'd like to show and discuss the galaxies you find, please join us at http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/ It's a friendly community and you are likely to get plenty of answers to your questions. Good places to start are the Newbies thread, or just come and say hello in the café."
Thanks as ever for all your efforts which make Galaxy Zoo possible, whether it’s in discovering supernovae, classifying galaxies or just chatting on the forum.
Chris & the Galaxy Zoo team
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