Lauren Nicholson with Idit Zehavi, Dept. of Astronomy
A Zoo of Galaxies
I will be investigating and quantifying the morphological properties of a group of strongly clustered galaxies found in the Galaxy Zoo project and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Data Release 7. Galaxy Zoo is an interactive project that utilizes the public to classify the millions of galaxies found in the SDSS, which I can use to pair the observations of the galaxies with the data that is normally considered in order to learn more about these faint red smudges. I will also be working with the Shafran Planetarium at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, designing and encoding a planetarium show using the Galaxy Zoo project and results.