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Help scientists understand how galaxies evolve in the Universe at galaxyzoo.org - we've classified millions of galaxies since 2007 and we are still going.

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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 23/09/2026
Announcing the Overlap Zoo project! (on the Galaxy Zoo blog): blog.galaxyzoo.org/2026/09/22/a... 🔭
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Announcing the Overlap Zoo project!
We are excited to announce the launch of Overlap Zoo, a new project under the Galaxy Zoo umbrella! Among the several million galaxies classified in previous Galaxy Zoo projects, a small number of t…
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 23/09/2026
We're happy to have a new "friend" (project) in the Zooniverse - introducing Overlap Zoo.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 26/05/2026
Introducing Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II  Hi everyone, If you’ve been following Galaxy Zoo for a while, you may remember the Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout project. Now, Clump Scout is back, and we need your help! The first Clump Scout projectBack in 2019, we asked you to help us find giant star forming…
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Introducing Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout II 
Hi everyone, If you’ve been following Galaxy Zoo for a while, you may remember the Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout project. Now, Clump Scout is back, and we need your help! The first Clump Scout projectBack in 2019, we asked you to help us find giant star forming clumps (or just “clumps”) in nearby galaxies. With your help, the first Clump Scout project was a resounding success.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 12/05/2026
Launching today - a first project with @vrubinobs.bsky.social and @galaxyzoo. Dive in quickly - these galaxies won't last long. 🔭
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A first Galaxy Zoo:Rubin project
We’re delighted to announce the first Galaxy Zoo workflow to include images from the NSF-DOE Vera C Rubin Observatory, using galaxies drawn from its first Data Preview.  First look image showing the diversity of galaxies we can expect from the Vera C Rubin's LSST survey. The new workflow went live on the site just now, but with only 10,359 subjects it won’t stick around for long, so do jump in and get classifying.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 10/04/2026
Investigating How Type of Galactic Bar Impacts Bar Quenching We are happy to announce the acceptance of the latest science team paper making use of Galaxy Zoo classifications (the image below is a link to the paper). Also see this list of all Galaxy Zoo Science Team Publications (which is mostly…
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Investigating How Type of Galactic Bar Impacts Bar Quenching
We are happy to announce the acceptance of the latest science team paper making use of Galaxy Zoo classifications (the image below is a link to the paper). Also see this list of all Galaxy Zoo Science Team Publications (which is mostly complete, usually!). This work was led by (at the time) undergraduate student Petra Mengistu (since Fall 2024 in the PhD Program at UCSC).
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Bill Keel @ngc3314.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New on @galaxyzoo.org blog (and on arxiv): spiral galaxies with large double radio sources (AKA SDRAGNs) from Radio Galaxy Zoo and Hubble Zoo Gems program. 🔭🧪 (gonna keep trying untiI I get this #astrosci thing right) blog.galaxyzoo.org/2026/03/14/h...
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Here be SDRAGNS! Results from Radio Galaxy Zoo and Hubble’s Zoo Gems
It’s taken a while to get this finished, but I am happy to say that our paper combining Radio Galaxy Zoo and Hubble data on the rare spiral galaxies with large double radio sources (also know…
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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Nice article (in which I am quoted) in A&G (from @royalastrosoc.bsky.social) on Citizen Science in Astronomy, and the impact of @zooniverse.bsky.social @galaxyzoo.org etc. academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art... 🔭👩‍🔬🧪
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People power in action
Zooniverse is a platform enabling citizen scientists to contribute to research, and it may just form the foundations of a new scientific community
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 25/07/2025
Galaxy Zoo science team virtual meeting this morning - hearing about work towards getting Rubin images ready for classification, and a side project on identifying overlapping galaxies like @ngc3314.bsky.social #astrosci
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 03/07/2025
Looking for bars in faraway galaxies Hi all! My name is Tobias Géron, I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto. I've been using Galaxy Zoo for a few years now to study bars in galaxies. Bars seem to be very common structures in the present-day Universe, with roughly half of all…
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Looking for bars in faraway galaxies
Hi all! My name is Tobias Géron, I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto. I've been using Galaxy Zoo for a few years now to study bars in galaxies. Bars seem to be very common structures in the present-day Universe, with roughly half of all disc galaxies having a bar. Bars are also thought to influence their host galaxies in all kinds of fun ways (e.g.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 29/04/2025
Announcing the Galaxy Zoo JWST project! We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with ~300,000 galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying…
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Announcing the Galaxy Zoo JWST project!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Galaxy Zoo JWST project, with ~300,000 galaxy images from the COSMOS-Web survey taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! We now need your help identifying the shapes of these galaxies by classifying them on Galaxy Zoo. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed over time, and what caused these changes and why.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 31/03/2025
Alyssa’s work can currently be seen in Galaxy Zoo, as we classify cutouts of the stunning images she made of the CEERS JWST Survey’s NIRCam pointings. We often make our own images for the project, but hers were so beautifully made that we knew we should use them instead! 🔭
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Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Loving the Euclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social galaxy explorer tool by Mike Walmsley. Thanks to the @galaxyzoo.org volunteers for all this work! euclid.streamlit.app 🔭🧪
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GZ Euclid
This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 24/03/2025
Galaxy Zoo in Japanese この度、Galaxy Zooは日本語でも参加できるようになりました(すでに中国語、フランス語、スペイン語、ハンガリー語、そして英語で利用できます)。ボランティアの翻訳者である @InoSenpai (イノ先輩)に感謝します。これで、本プロジェクトを日本語話者にも広めていけるようになりました。 We're delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo is now available in Japanese (in addition to Chinese, French, Spanish, Hungarian and…
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Galaxy Zoo in Japanese
この度、Galaxy Zooは日本語でも参加できるようになりました(すでに中国語、フランス語、スペイン語、ハンガリー語、そして英語で利用できます)。ボランティアの翻訳者である @InoSenpai (イノ先輩)に感謝します。これで、本プロジェクトを日本語話者にも広めていけるようになりました。 We're delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo is now available in Japanese (in addition to Chinese, French, Spanish, Hungarian and English). Thanks to the efforts of volunteer translator @InoSenpai we can now bring Galaxy Zoo to a wider audience of Japanese speakers.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 20/03/2025
More on our Galaxy Zoo Euclid work in Daily Zooniverse today @zooniverse.bsky.social daily.zooniverse.org/2025/03/20/e... 🔭
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Euclid first data release
The team behind the Euclid observatory released their first data yesterday, and Zooniverse projects and participants were especially prominent. Euclid’s mission is to make a map of the whole sky wh…
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Some more context on our involvement @ox.ac.uk and @zooniverse.bsky.social in yesterday's @esa.int Euclid data release - it's so cool that citizen science results from volunteers around the world were so prominent: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
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Researchers and volunteers unite to uncover spectacular space
New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped the evolution of the Universe. Oxford University researchers have been at
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 19/03/2025
We’re delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo (and you!) are featured in the first Euclid data release announced today! Read more: blog.galaxyzoo.org/2025/03/19/g... 🔭
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Galaxy Zoo featured in first Euclid data release!
We’re delighted to share that Galaxy Zoo (and you!) are featured in the first Euclid data release announced today! Back in August 2024, we launched an intensive Euclid campaign where 9,976 of…
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 17/03/2025
Most of the science team is assembled in Bern this week to work hard on getting the rest of JWST images into the site, and also to do some science with the classifications.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 21/02/2025
All Zooniverse webpages, including Galaxy Zoo are down due to a major system issue. The Zooniverse team are working hard and hope to have this fixed and restored by Sunday.
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 21/02/2025
A classic valentine from longtime volunteer @penguingalaxy.bsky.social
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 01/08/2024
We are live with images from Euclid! Visit galaxyzoo.org and you might be the first human to ever see the images we need your help with 🔭
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 16/05/2024
New research from Galaxy Zoo: slow, strong bars affect their hosts the most blog.galaxyzoo.org/2024/05/10/s...
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Slow strong bars affect their hosts the most
Hi everyone, my name is Tobias. I finished my PhD at the University of Oxford almost a year ago now, and I am currently a postdoc at the University of Toronto. I work a lot with Galaxy Zoo classificat...
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Galaxy Zoo @galaxyzoo.org · 10/05/2024
We love a smooth galaxy whose light started travelling to us when our sun wasn't even a glint in the Milky Way's eye!
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