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Zooite Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch schoolteacher, discovered this strange green object floating in her cosmic soup:
When van Arkel noticed this unusual greenish object and posted an image of it on the Galaxy Zoo forum, not even the experts knew what it was.2 They named it "Voorwerp," Dutch for "object."
Another group of Zooites found green "peas" in theirs, and dubbed themselves the "Peas-Corp."
And now you can be the one to find it, thanks to Zooniverse, a unique citizen science website. Zooniverse volunteers, who call themselves "Zooites," are working on a project called Galaxy Zoo, classifying distant galaxies imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp Astrophysicists finally discover the origin of a supergiant cloud of green-glowing gas that is floating in intergalactic space.
Another group of Zooites found green "peas" in theirs, and dubbed themselves the "Peas-Corp." The peas turned out to be small, round green galaxies about a tenth the size of the Milky Way. These are now believed to be the most efficient star factories in the universe, forming huge numbers of stars in a hurry. "It was easy to find 'peas' by computer once we knew they were there, but without the human factor we'd never have noticed them," says Lintott.
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Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp Astrophysicists finally discover the origin of a supergiant cloud of green-glowing gas that is floating in intergalactic space.
Another group of Zooites found green "peas" in theirs, and dubbed themselves the "Peas-Corp." The peas turned out to be small, round green galaxies about a tenth the size of the Milky Way. These are now believed to be the most efficient star factories in the universe, forming huge numbers of stars in a hurry. "It was easy to find 'peas' by computer once we knew they were there, but without the human factor we'd never have noticed them," says Lintott.
The gas clouds in galaxies are much larger than the stars. When the clouds hit each other, they compress and collapse to form a lot of stars in a short time. Galaxies undergoing such a burst of star formation are called starburst galaxies and they can be the among the most luminous of galaxies.