{"id":601,"date":"2007-08-07T07:10:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T06:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=601"},"modified":"2007-08-07T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T06:10:28","slug":"sorting-out-a-million-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Sorting out a million galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the weekend, Vee and I were in deepest and remotest Kent to visit our friends Derek and Mandy who live in a little village called Broughton-under-Blean.  From the balcony of their house, we watched the sunset behind the orchard next to their home.<br \/>\nDerek was a colleague of mine in the Research Department of the Communication Workers Union and now runs a small company that operates excellent walking tours of the Pilgrims Way. You can check out his company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkawhile.co.uk\/\">Walk Awhile<\/a>.<br \/>\nDerek told me that he has been participating in an amazing collaborative effort to categorise what might eventually be up to million galaxies. This operation is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/\">Galaxy Zoo<\/a>.<br \/>\nBasically there are two types of galaxies: those shaped like rugby balls (or American footballs) which are called &#8216;ellipticals&#8217; and whirlpool-like galaxies which are called &#8216;spirals&#8217; .If you like, you can try distinguishing the types by taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galaxyzoo.org\/Tutorial.aspx\">this test<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo one minute Derek is looking at the sky to see the sun set and another minute he&#8217;s looking at pictures of the heavens to categorise galaxies containing millions of suns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the weekend, Vee and I were in deepest and remotest Kent to visit our friends Derek and Mandy who live in a little village called Broughton-under-Blean. From the balcony of their house, we watched the sunset behind the orchard next to their home. Derek was a colleague of mine in the Research Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}