Galaxy Disguised as a Star

In Disk Detective, Zooites hunt for stars that are surrounded by disks of gas, dust, and rock chunks—the substances that can eventually congeal and form planets. But not everything that looks like a dusty star at first glance turns out to actually be one!…

“I told you we should have asked for directions, but noooooo…” Come to think of it, this really looks like a screenshot from a penguin horror movie, doesn’t it? The Bird Witch Project… perhaps with a leopard seal or a giant petrel as the crazed killer? Or…

  Merry Christmas to each and every one of our volunteers from all of us at the Zooniverse. We hope that wherever you are you’ve had a great day with family and loved ones.

  In this video we see a rather unusual “business meeting” between myself and my boss (Zooniverse founder Chris Lintott). We are playing a sport called real tennis, which is actually the progenitor of the much more popular lawn tennis. We play for the…

  As a follow-up of the video tour we gave you of our Oxford headquarters, here is one of our base at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. It’s hosted by our community builder, Darren, with interviews with some other members of the team.

  Today’s gift is a video of our Talk visualisation, created by Rob Simpson, with narration from the man himself! Enjoy.

  Unfortunately there is no pear tree in this image, just what appears to be a partridge! We hope you’re still enjoying the Christmas period wherever you are!

  Here’s something to cheer up Planet Hunters fans on Boxing Day. Super Planet Crash lets you really quickly create your own planetary system with various sized planets. It’s surprisingly hard to make them crash! Have a go now…

We’ve saved the best for last! The Zooniverse cocktails have become a traditional advent calendar, treat and this year, thanks to Chris Lintott, we have a fantastic batch of new beverages inspired by our projects. Try them out and have a drink on us this…

  These are the ten most popular images from the Milky Way Project as favourited by our amazing volunteers. It truly does have some of the most beautiful data of all the Zooniverse projects! Click on the gallery to view full-size pictures.

  Here we have, in order, the top 10 most favourited images from Galaxy Zoo. These are the kind of pictures that keep our volunteers coming back for more! Click gallery to view larger versions.

  Some of you may remember the Ali Dance from Snapshot Serengeti. Well it has been recreated for the advent calendar by Rob Simpson and myself. I feel I didn’t put enough effort into the hips! If you attempt your own recreation of the Ali Dance, please…