They had a problem: people were finding significantly more counterclockwise-rotating spiral galaxies than clockwise. That?s a problem! We?d expect the numbers to be almost exactly the same. Did the GalaxyZoo folks stumble onto a new and previously undiscovered cosmological property?
Turns out, no. It?s not in the stars, it?s in ourselves. I interviewed astronomer Chris Lintott from GalaxyZoo, and he explains it all.
So writes the so-called bad astronomer.
(Thanks to investigator Betsy Devine for bringing this to our attention.)