Teacher finds blue-green quasar!

[Rudy Toody]

Dutch high school physics teacher finds rare quasar!

Galaxy Zoo

Not exactly Distributed Computing, more like Distributed Visual Analysis.

--Fred

EDIT: Link to part 2.

 

[networkman]

As an amateur into radio-astronomy I find this of particular interest. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Alyx]

Very interesting.

 

[Rudy Toody]

TTT

 

[Assimilator1]

Wow that's cool! , I hadn't heard of this before might give it a go myself.
BTW I found this funny & reminiscent

?We expected to get several hundred people a day? taking part, Szalay says. In fact, the first day alone there were several million. During the past 11 months, the public has turned in some 40 million galaxy classifications.

?As far as we can tell,? Bill Keel told me this morning, ?it?s an unprecedented thing.? Throughout the known universe ?there is nothing else that?s quite like it,? according to the University of Alabama astronomer.

 

[Spacehead]

Todays APOD (June 25) has info on the mystery object.

 

[GenHoth]

sweet

 

[Rudy Toody]

Update on Hanny's Voorwerp!

She is made a co-author of the scientific paper.

 

[Assimilator1]

And she's quite cute too .