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Stories about: Hanny's Voorwerp

Hubble Gets New View of Hanny's Voorwerp Astronomers with the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa say that they were recently able to collect new images of Hanny's Voorwerp (Object), using the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. This particular structure, which looks like a massive blob of green gas floating through space, is one of the weirdest astronomer... 12 January 2011 02:30 GMT New Insight on Hanny's Voorwerp Voorwerp means “object” in Dutch. This is the generic definition received by a peculiar phenomenon spotted a while ago by a Dutch school teacher, Hanny van Arkel, while she was combing through hundreds of photos as a volunteer for the Galaxy Zoo project. For more than a year now, scientists have been tryi... 26 November 2008 07:21 GMT