i'm visiting chicago's
adler planetarium this week. yesterday i recorded a
"Night and Day" podcast, toured the museum, played with some cool technologies in their
space visualization lab, enjoyed a song of
galaxy karaoke inside the planetarium dome, and gave a science talk. whew!
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| the adler planetarium lives out in a peninsula |
for the rest of the week i'm working with the
galaxy zoo quench team on a project that allows citizen scientists of any kind to go through the entire process of science! together, the citizen scientists and science team will investigate why a unique group of galaxies have had their star formation abruptly turned off, and write a journal article describing the methods and results! you're welcome to play along with the experimental project -
start here!
otherwise, enjoy this image of a beautiful pair of spiral galaxies, flying toward each, about to clash. is this a process that turns on a little burst of star formation before shutting it all off again? stay turned...
1 comment:
They're not colliding, they're dancing!
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