Date: March 21, 2011
Title: Galaxy Zoo 2 – Do Bars Kill Spirals?
Podcasters: Karen Masters and Chris Lintott
Organization: www.galaxyzoo.org
Description: Chris and Karen discuss the first results from Galaxy Zoo 2 classifications, which looks at the types of spiral galaxies that host bars and what that might mean for their future.
Bios: Chris and Karen are English astronomers invoved in Galaxy Zoo.
Chris Lintott is a researcher who is involved in a number of popular science projects aimed at bringing astronomical science to a wider audience. He is the co-presenter of Patrick Moore’s BBC series “The Sky at Night” and a co-author of the book Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist Brian May. He is one of the principal investigators for the Galaxy Zoo project, and runs Zooniverse projects which allow you to help scientists explore the Universe. Chris is now the Director of Citizen Science Initiatives at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
Karen Masters is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and the University of Portsmouth, UK (and SEPnet; www.sepnet.ac.uk). She has been involved in Galaxy Zoo since 2008 and has spent most of her time producing scientific research from the classifications, but also contributes to the Galaxy Zoo Blog (http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/author/karen). She is also the Public Engagement Co-ordinator for the LOFAR-UK (www.lofar-uk.org) project — the UK contribution to the next generation radio telescope, LOFAR (www.lofar.org).
Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by the Physics Department at Eastern Illinois University: “Caring faculty guiding students through teaching and research” at www.eiu.edu/~physics/
Transcript:
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