An Extra-galactic Halloween
Updated: 2010-10-31 17:13:12
At a pumpkin carving event yesterday, we (a group of people from Yale astro) tried to come up with an appropriate theme for our pumpkin. Naturally, we decided on the Hubble Sequence of galaxy morphology:
Elliptical
Lenticular
Early Spiral
Late Spiral
Irregular
And the artists…

A galaxy cluster with a central quasar located about 8 billion light years away.
In their analysis of public data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Dan Hooper, Fermilab scientist, and Lisa Goodenough, a graduate student at New York University, report that very-high-energy gamma rays coming from the center of the Milky Way originate from dark-matter collisions.
A slowly rotating neutron star with a very weak magnetic field at its surface.
Today’s blog post is from Ivy Wong:
Hello Zoo-ites! I’m a work colleague of Kevin’s and I just recently submitted a Galaxy Zoo paper too. I just wanted to let you know all about it because I also wanted to thank you all for the great work which you’ve done in classifying so many galaxies. I am quite excited [...]
G327.1-1.1 is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Milky Way galaxy.