Thursday 1 January 2009

Happy New Year!


Happy New Year! I couldn't resist putting together this rather bad montage of all our favourite astronomical objects for today's Object of the Day. I mentioned the International Year of Astronomy which must be launching round about now amidst the fireworks. They have a set of opening ceremonies in rather random countries - not the UK, sadly - and hope to "[make] it possible to reach out to 97% of the world’s population". We haven't heard much about it at Galaxy Zoo yet. I was very proud that one of our younger members thought up an international event, though I hope the Galaxy Zoo server won't melt this time!

Wishing you all an astronomically happy and successful 2009. Oh, and welcome to anyone who's found my blog from Galaxy Zoo. I finally got around to mentioning it today. That video did it.

Update: Check out the top astronomy pictures of 2008.

4 comments:

Georgia said...

Happy New Year Alice! One of the ways everyone can celebrate the International Year of Astronomy is to subscribe to the daily podcasts at http://365daysofastronomy.org/
Every day this year your will hear a different podcast--perhaps featuring somebody you know (or know of)! :-)

Pat said...

Happy New Year Alice and Well done on your posts. They are really great.:)

And thanks to Georgia too for the link. :)

Alice said...

Thanks both!

And thanks Georgia for the link. I have put it here: http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=273428.0. If you'd like to get involved in Galaxy Zoo, or to post about the International Year of Astronomy, please go to that thread . . .

Alice said...

Sorry, I mean if you'd like to talk about Galaxy Zoo's possible contribution. If you're new to Galaxy Zoo that thread is not a place to start. :D

Incoherence rocks . . . not.