The Galaxy Zoo Shop is now open for business offering some official ZOO merchandise. We are currently using Cafepress for the ordering, printing and distribution and  plan to add some more designs and other products as we go on.

If you have any queries about your orders etc — you will need to email Cafepress about it but I have found them to be very quick to respond to queries.

All profits will be used to support the work of the Zoo,  so if you feel like wearing the ZOO badge with pride check out the Zoo Shop at www.cafepress.com/galaxyzoo

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A few months ago we asked anyone who felt so inclined to record their  name to be added to the image which is referenced in each and every Galaxy Zoo paper. It features more than 5000 zooites spread across a beautiful Hubble image of a (clockwise) spiral galaxy, and looks fantastic!

You can order the poster from the new Galaxy Zoo Online Shop.

It is 29.6″ x 21.0″ [750 x 530 mm] in size and  printed on heavyweight, semi-gloss paper using superior dye inks. 

The price is $17.99 [plus postage], which is is merely the cost price that Cafepress.com are charging to print it.

Why not check it out!

We are considering offering other Galaxy Zoo related goodies to coincide with the launch of Zoo 2 — so keep checking the Blog and Forum for updates.

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As many of you are aware, over the past 9 weeks I have been trying to retrieve some of the old Galaxy Zoo Forum data that was lost at the beginning of June. A massive outage at ThePlanet.com TX, USA, where the Forum was previoulsy hosted, caused damage to the web server HDD and has resulted in us trying to restore the missing forum backup content using Data Recovery Services in California. Unforunately the chances of restoring this data would now appear to be remote.

I have been in constant contact with ThePlanet.com and their most recent report stated that “despite strenuous efforts to recover the data from the damaged HDD, so far very little has been salvaged. They are continuing to extract what they can, but realistically there is very little chance of finding anything usable.”

It is pretty disappointing news, especially since the data loss was outside our control, but hopefully it has resulted in only minimal inconvenience for our amazing army of forum zooites!. I will keep you updated via the Galaxy Zoo Blog as soon as more information is available.  Thankfully, Edd managed to get the Galaxy Zoo Forum back running again a few weeks ago and it seems to be continuing to to grow ever bigger.

Philip Murray
Galaxy Zoo Team & Fingerprint Digital Media

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