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Academics at Oxford University are working to identify a cosmic mystery which has until now lurked unnoticed in specialist archives.
The phenomenon was first spotted by an armchair astronomer who took part in the Galaxy Zoo project, which enlists the help of amateur star gazers to classify cosmic images that computers cannot identify.
Hanny's Voorwerp - which translates literally as 'Hanny's object' is named after Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch schoolteacher who discovered it. And it is baffling scientists at the university.

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Hanny van Arkel just wanted to know what the blue blob was in the picture, but the question she asked so stumped astronomers that NASA awarded them time on the Hubble Space Telescope to answer it.

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Position(2000): RA 09 41 00.86, Dec  33 43  42.26

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Shortly after Galaxy Zoo was launched to the general public a primary-school teacher discovered a curious blue object now known as "Hanny's Voorwerp.

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