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… Dr Mike Walmsley of the University of Manchester and the Galaxy Zoo collaboration will present the new work, describing how … leaving tell-tale markers that volunteers search for on the Galaxy Zoo website. But understanding exactly which cosmic …
Image shows a grid of 35 different galaxies in ring like shapes, in faint blue colours.
Images of 35 of the ring galaxies newly discovered by the Galaxy Zoo volunteers and the Zoobot.
Mike Walmsley / Galaxy Zoo collaboration
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… of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of galaxy classification, in a new study using data from the longstanding Galaxy Zoo project. The new investigation, published in the …
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Spiral structure in the Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101), as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI
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… find stars instead sprinting inwards – perhaps from another galaxy. The study is published in the journal Monthly … the Royal Astronomical Society .   Stars circle around our galaxy at hundreds of kilometres per second, and their … Marchetti. “These could be stars from another galaxy, zooming right through the Milky Way.”   It is possible that …
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… New research has found that the majority of stars in our galaxy’s central bulge formed in a single burst of star … Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . Our Milky Way galaxy is shaped like two fried eggs glued back-to-back: a …   Images, videos and captions     This video zooms into a view of the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, …
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Image looking towards the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, taken with the Dark Energy Camera on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The image covers 0.5 by 0.25 degrees on the sky (an area about twice as wide as the full Moon) and contains over 180,000 stars, capturing a portion of our galaxy about 220 by 110 light-years across.
CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / STScI, W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA)
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… a Universe in a box – with the computational resolution of “zoom” simulations, at a level of detail that had previously … explains: “In practice, TNG50 shows that our own Milky Way galaxy with its thin disc is at the height of galaxy fashion: over the past 10 billion years, at least …
Face-on image of a spiral galaxy
Image of the optical light emitted by the stars of a spiral galaxy from the TNG50 simulation.
D. Nelson (MPA) and the IllustrisTNG team
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… extragalactic surveys had made the visual classification of galaxy morphologies impractical. The Galaxy Zoo project solved this problem by asking members of the …
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… of galaxies in the Universe, using large datasets such as  Galaxy Zoo  and the  Sloan Digital Sky Survey . As well as … black holes grow due to processes internal to a galaxy, but we still don’t understand how that happens yet! …
Becky Smethurst
Angel Li
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… of galaxies in the Universe, using large datasets such as Galaxy Zoo and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . She demonstrated that … and is entitled “Supermassive Black Holes: The Ultimate Galaxy Killers?”   Notes for editors   The William Herschel …
Dr Rebecca Smethurst
Becky Smethurst
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… stars were formed in the history of the Milky Way, the galaxy we live in. The team found that most gold-rich stars … Origin of highly r-process-enhanced stars in a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy ’, Hirai et al. , published in Monthly Notices of the …
A yellow gold hued spiral galaxy against the blue-black backdrop of space.
The simulated Milky Way-like galaxy at present taken from the simulation produced in the study.
Simulation: Takayuki Saitoh (Kobe University/Tokyo Tech ELSI), Visualization: Takaaki Takeda (VASA Entertainment Co. Ltd.)
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… Lecture ticket Supermassive Black Holes: The Ultimate Galaxy Killers? Dr. Becky Smethurst   There are over 1 … can either heat or remove the cold hydrogen gas within a galaxy needed to form new stars through a huge outburst of … in the Universe, using large datasets such as Galaxy Zoo and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. She has demonstrated …
Becky Smethurst
Angel Li
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