Many people dream of making the next big discovery to change the way humans think about the universe. For most of history, that dream has been off limits to all but research scientists. In recent decades, however, citizen science has given regular people a chance to make those big discoveries. That's how one of the strangest space objects ever witnessed was discovered by a 24-year-old schoolteacher from the Netherlands.
"Hanny, Here's Your Voorwerp."
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Written by
Ashley Hamer
March 15, 2017
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