Space Ref (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
( Yale University ) When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky. The Dutch school teacher, a volunteer in the Galaxy Zoo project that allows members of the public to take part in astronomy research online,...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
When Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleagues at Oxford University enlisted public support in cataloguing galaxies, they never envisioned the strange object Hanny van Arkel found in archived images of the night sky.
Astronomy.com (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch primary schoolteacher, discovered a mysterious new astronomical object while on galaxyzoo.org. Edd Edmondson"IC 2497 is so close that if the quasar was still shining today, on a good night you could probably see it with a small telescope," said galaxyzoo.org team member Kevin Schawinski of the Yale University who recently moved there from Oxford University. "The...
CNN (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... collaboration, the Galaxy Zoo project was launched last year by Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and his colleague Chris Lintott at the University of Oxford in England.The pair were looking for help in cataloging archived photographs of galaxies -- one million images -- taken by the robotic Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope in remote southern New Mexico.Knowing the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... She reported she was unable to classify an irregular, green, glowing object. Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski and colleagues at Oxford University say van Arkel might have found a new class of astronomical object that's become known as Hanny's Voorwerp -- Dutch for "object."Schawinski asked astronomers around the world to examine the Voorwerp with ground- and satellite-based...
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team, said in a statement.The find, nicknamed "Hanny's Voorwerp" (Dutch for object), soon had scientists training their telescopes on the object."What we saw was really a mystery," Schawinski said. "The Voorwerp didn't contain...
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team, said in a statement.The find, nicknamed "Hanny's Voorwerp" (Dutch for object), soon had scientists training their telescopes on the object."What we saw was really a mystery," Schawinski said. "The Voorwerp didn't contain...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe," Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski, a member and co-founder of the Galaxy Zoo team, said in a statement.The discovery was nicknamed "Hanny's Voorwerp", which is Dutch for object. Soon after, astronomers confirmed that the object was one-of-a-kind. Details of the discovery appear in the journal Monthly Notices...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Hanny van Arkel, from Holland, discovered the 'cosmic ghost' while volunteering in the Galaxy Zoo project, which enlists the help of members of the public to classify galaxies online.'At first, we had no idea what it was. It could have been in our solar system, or at the edge of the universe,' Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski said.
