Press Release | 08.05.2008
“Cosmic Ghost” Discovered by Volunteer Astronomer
DATE: 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.
Image Credits: (header) European Space Agency & NASA; (left) Dan Smith, Peter Herbert, Matt Jarvis & the ING; (background) NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
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