Word: blob
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...play-a-scientist-on-TV kind of way. But astronomers - and volunteers - have made real discoveries by mining its crowd-sourced data. Among them: red spiral galaxies (most spirals are blue), green peas (small but energy-packed, star-spewing galaxies) and Hanny's Voorwerp, an amorphous blue blob spotted by Dutch schoolteacher Hanny Van Arkel, who learned about Galaxy Zoo on the website of Brian May, the former Queen guitarist turned astrophysicist...
...wants to cover it up in as big a fabric as possible, like a tentlike shirt or a dress, and elastic pants or drawstring pants, where you really can't see what your shape is. This is not a good thing, because it just makes you look like a blob. You want to show your shape. You want to wear a dress and pull a belt around your waistline to show that your figure is still hourglass, that you have a bust and you have hips but that you do get thinner in the waist...
...analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber's words, "full of holes, like Swiss cheese. We haven't seen this sort of thing before." (Read "Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska...