Galaxy Zoo

This plugin offers two WordPress widgets through which users can display data from their accounts on Galaxy Zoo.

The first widget, ‘Galaxy Zoo’, display general stats such as the username, the date the user joined Galaxy Zoo, the number of galaxy classifications and the latest classified galaxy.

The second widget, ‘Galaxy Zoo Favorites’, displays thumbnail images of galaxies the user selected as his/er favorites (using the Galaxy Zoo’s My Galaxies page – http://galaxyzoo.org/my_galaxies)

Both widget are completely customizable via the widget’s control panel and style-able via a separate css file(s).

Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in classifying over a million galaxies. It is an example of Citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research.

The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org/)

Requirements

• PHP 5.2.0 or newer (SimpleXml required)
• WordPress 2.8 or newer

Known Issues

1.0

• Changing the number of favorites on the favorites widget will NOT reset the cache, i.e. the new number of favorite galaxies will be requested only once the current cache expires (or is manually deleted)