Search Details

Word: voorwerp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...amusing diversion - fun in an I-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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Classify a Million Galaxies in Three Weeks | 3/28/2010 | See Source »

| 1 |