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| Thread ID: 91035 | 2008-06-24 02:15:00 | Dedicated Demi-Distaff Describes Delightful Discovery | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 681749 | 2008-06-24 02:15:00 | Nearly a year ago, astronomers at several universities recruited citizen scientists to help them catalog distant galaxies that had recently been photographed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (www.sciencenews.org( part_I)). A high-school physics teacher in the Netherlands who was participating in this project, known as Galaxy Zoo, appears to have scored a major coup. She brought a weird blue object to the attention of the professional zookeepers, according to a cosmologist associated with the zoo. Currently, no one is sure what the wispy blue cloud is. But Szalay says it appears to be “radiation emitted by a quasar.” Only one similar object is known, he says: Minkowski’s object. (www.llnl.gov) <How's that, Jamuz?> |
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| 681750 | 2008-06-24 03:35:00 | Well I'm not Jamuz, but it's not bad at all. ;) | wratterus (105) | ||
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