Galaxy Zoo Voorwerp Images

These images can be used to illustrate the Oxford University press release (4 August 2008).

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Hanny van Arkel, the Dutch primary schoolteacher who discovered a mysterious new astronomical object.

Credit: Edd Edmondson 

'Hanny's Voorwerp' : the green blob of gas [centre] believed to be a 'light echo' from the bright, stormy centre of a distant galaxy that has now gone dim.

Credit : Dan Smith, Peter Herbert, Matt Jarvis & the ING 

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