h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh my - you can save the pics

OK I have uploaded this:
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/anniebarrnone/album?.dir=/f26fre2

Yay!

I gotta pink pulsar!

Astronomers claim galaxy record
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6292024.stm

you will always be my pink pulsar, dear

I'm wondering how long the million galaxies are going to last. Being sorted I mean.

A green line!
Galaxy Ref: 588297864188264490
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/an...etail?.dir=f26fre2&.dnm=64e3re2.jpg

Analysis for the green line:

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/...plore/obj.asp?id=588297864188264490

>>pailaway have you noticed you can't logout unless a new one is loading<<

Yes I did, and it kept me going for somewhat longer than I wanted. Well, no harm done.

I'm off to do some more

This is really addictive and so easy to do - I don't know whether to you or hex you GB.

Sorry

The green line was a satellite

It's amazing to think that each of those blurs is a galaxy of maybe a billion stars, and each has its own Luke Skywalkers, Galaxy Babes and Gautama Buddhas.

Ooh aah You mean there are multiple Galaxy Babes?

*jaw hits floor*

but there is only one Galaxy Baby

But gazillions of galaxies ..... I must have done over 1,000

Isn't it surprising how many elliptical galaxies there are ... and how many merging.

It's the merging ones that get to me, the slow dance of death, like two behemoths destined to tear each other apart. Eventually our Milky Way will merge with Andromeda but that's nothing we have to worry about just yet.

Have you found anything worth reporting to the team, Fizzy?

we're on a collision course? I, for one, am going to start worrying right now

Global warming, Galaxy Collisions, and now a mass merging of Hootoo Researchers in Hull...

One disaster after another!

Two galaxies can actually collide, then pass through each other and out the other side!

But what happens when a Galaxy and an Animal collide...

Watch the Hull Meet thread to find out!!

I've emailed a few things, but the most beautiful and curious wa what should have been a spiral galaxy I think - but it was a perfect circle ..... like a string of pearls enclosing a milky blue soup ..... really beautiful - but I haven't had a reply to my email yet.

Give the team time - they've been inundated.
Look what I've found while I was away, they wrote, typical

<<Ann,

I'm not sure what this is, but it looks like they might be merging galaxies. I'll mark them for further review. Great find!

Thanks for helping us look through all these galaxies!

Cheers,
Jordan (for the Galaxy Zoo team)

On 11/07/07, Ann Croft wrote:
Galaxy Ref: 587728920057675946
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How very friendly

I've only had one reply and that was just to say that what I'd sent was an elliptical with a bright star nearby.

I've not seen anything like that perfectly circular galaxy since - I'm really intrigued - have you seen anything like that.