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Dutch School Teacher Finds New Intergalactic Object

It's called Hanny's Voorwerp, after its discoverer Hanny Van Arkel and the Dutch word for object. Van Arkel noticed the green blob while using the Web site Galaxy Zoo, where volunteers pour over images of galaxies and other cosmic objects and help scientists categorize them. Scientists believe that the Voorwerp was lit up by a powerful quasar (a massive black hole that blasts light and radio ...