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Potomac Avenue — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:10:40 -0800

The Story of Hanny So Far

It all started when Hanny, a big fan of Queen guitarist Brian May, clicked a link on his website. Since then, the life of the clever but untrained 24 year old primary school teacher has been inextricably linked to a big blue (green?) 'astronomical object of unknown nature.' Previously on GalaxyZoo

By: lucien_reeve

lucien_reeve — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:34:37 -0800

That's lovely. Good for her!

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:41:18 -0800

Such a cool story. These public participation astronomy projects are great, I can't think of another scientific field where amateurs play such an important role. Amateur astronomers discover all sorts of cosmological objects and mysteries. I love it.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:01:02 -0800

Yay! That story made me happy, which I kind of needed this morning. It is also full of great band/user names. If I already didn't have a name, I would be tempted by "Unidentified Bluey Stuff," "Hanny's Voorwerp," or "the size of 8,500,000,000 suns," although the last would be a pain to type.

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:02:42 -0800

Also, I like the call for more general-participation science. We do too little of that.

By: edd

edd — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:03:50 -0800

Incidentally, the author of the first link, Ann Finkbeiner, has just released a book on the survey Galaxy Zoo made use of.

By: neushoorn

neushoorn — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:11:42 -0800

How exciting! The possible explanation is really interesting.

By: Hardcore Poser

Hardcore Poser — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:40:59 -0800

It's obvious we have located the home galaxy of Kirk's enemy the Gorn.

By: Some1

Some1 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:57:14 -0800

Is this something I'd have to pronounce 'Voorwerpje' to appreciate? Just kidding. This is a great story, but I'd really like some help for an American English speaker in pronouncing that. VOOr-virp-ya?

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:57:33 -0800

That's nifty!

By: Xoebe

Xoebe — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:06:06 -0800

That is seriously so totally cool it begs other descriptions from inarticulate commentors such as myself.

By: infinitywaltz

infinitywaltz — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:32:35 -0800

This was really cool, and I think I want to start helping out with that galaxy classification project.

By: iamck

iamck — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:43:02 -0800

I thought these projects were great too until I was using SETI @ home, detected an alien signal, and these guys in suits came and confiscated my computer.