21st of December 2016 |
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Radio Galaxy Zoo turns 3! |
by Ivy Wong (UWA) |
Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) is an online citizen
science project that enlists the help of citizen scientists in the
classification of radio source components and in the identification of their
respective host galaxies. This project is jointly-led by Dr Julie Banfield
and Dr Ivy Wong and began when they were both postdoctoral researchers at
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS). A few days ago, RGZ celebrated its
3rd birthday. The biggest science news coming out of Radio Galaxy Zoo this
year will have to be the official publication of the Matorny-Terentev cluster
of galaxies, (RGZ-CL J0823.2+0333) - named after two of our super-Zooites
who discovered the Giant Wide-Angle Tail galaxy (shown in fluorescent pink
colours in the above figure,
Banfield et al 2016). For more information about this project, please visit the Radio Galaxy Zoo webpage. |