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. 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.
That novelty appears to be a quasar whose intense radio emissions have been fueling star births.
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