Thirty years ago, in September and October 1996, an extraordinary breakthrough took place atop Mount Hamilton that forever changed ground-based astronomy. On the 3-meter Shane Telescope at Lick Observ...

Classify overlapping galaxies from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (also known lately as the Astro Society to stress that their membership isn’t just around the Pacific Rim) recently held their annual meeting, this tim…

The launch of Katalyst Space’s LINK designed to boost the orbit of NASA’s Swift observatory, was postponed Tuesday due to unfavorable weather conditions.

We present compelling arguments -- focusing on galaxy science -- for preserving the main imagers and operational modes of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) for as long as is technically feasible, to as...

Correct machine predictions to reveal the shapes of stellar nurseries!

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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