Hanny voorwerp comic book

Hannys voorwerp rare type of astronomical object called a quasar ionization echo, appears as a bright blob close to spiral galaxy ic 2497 in the constellation leo minor. August 2010 southern illinois university edwardsville. They duly named the object in her honor hannys voorwerp which is dutch for hannys thing. If youre an educator, or are looking to get your kids interested in. Seems to be some sort of nebula, but the distinct color means that all of the stars would have to be exceptionally hot. The black hole is still there, of course, but over the past ten years, it appears to have swallowed all the gas in its vicinity. Sep 03, 2010 university of alabama astronomy professor bill keel credits southern illinois university astronomy professor pamela gay with the idea of a comic book. Hansi the girl who loved the swastika the full comic flashbak. Jan 21, 2011 radio observations show that hanny s voorwerp is actually part of a long stream of gas about 300,000 lightyears long connected to ic 2497. Hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp is online comic book about 2007 discovery.

Oct 05, 20 hansi the girl who loved the swastika the full comic hansi loved the swaskita. Discoveries james webb space telescope science guide hannys voorwerp. Take a trip of about 650 million lightyears to get to one of the strangest places in the universe. Changing dynamics in science and communications request pdf. In hannys voorwerp looking to live somewhere really weird and alternative.

Dec 10, 2010 the voorwerp is a fascinating object in two ways. Hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp a team of astronomers and artists, mostly from america, created a comic book about my story. Hannys voorwerp official website of discoverer hanny van. If you order before the weekend, you can get a signed and customized copy from uncle hugos where i will be signing on saturday, and, of course, the book may be purchased at all the usual venues. Galaxy zoo where the voorwerp was discovered, and you can make discoveries of your own hannys voorwerp in hanny s words. Managing scientific inquiry in a laboratory the size of. Now known popularly as hannys voorwerp, subsequent observations have shown that the mysterious green blob has the same distance as neighboring galaxy ic 2497. If you order before the weekend, you can get a signed and customized copy from uncle hugos where i will be signing on saturday, and, of course, the book may be purchased at. The project was written largely by a team of volunteers from convergence, and the art is by two amazing students here at siue. Hanny s voorwerp is a popular topic of conversation due to its novel discovery by hanny van arkel perusing images from the galaxy zoo project. Hanny van arkel and the team of scientists, among who are astron scientists, have been immortalized in the unlikely, but true story hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp. A mysterious object with an equally mysterious name may have been revealed by a strange light echo in deepest space. University of alabama astronomer helps tell online story.

Comic book chronicles astronomy discovery news tuscaloosa. Research is ongoing, but one leading hypothesis holds that hannys voorwerp is a small galaxy that acts like a large reflection nebula, showing the reflected light of a bright quasar. More silly launch videos are on the way as soon as we can get them edited, so watch this space. The project was a comic illustrating an amazingly nifty discovery in astronomy called hannys voorwerp. Researchers like william keel at the university of alabama were awarded funding by nasa to study the green blob of gasresearchers thought the story had potential to become educational and the story of hannys voorwerp, comic book hero, is born, just basically showing how ordinary people an contribute in ways they never would have. The comic book yes, there is now a comic book, hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp. Comic book to share true tale of strange space object.

Nov 03, 2010 hannys voorwerp is a popular topic of conversation due to its novel discovery by hanny van arkel perusing images from the galaxy zoo project. This inspired me to begin writing a fictional series about as science guy hero taking on real dangers in the universe to save the planet coming soon. This is apparently a tidal tail strung out when another. In 2010 the royal society journal biology letters published an article, blackawton bees, which caused something of a sensation. A team of astronomers secured time on the hubble space telescope to observe hannys voorwerp, the unusual object found by dutch teacher. The story of how i discovered hanny s voorwerp and of our quest to find out what it is. In 1973, her romance with democratic socialism led to the creation of this comic book. Amazon, barnes and noble, indiebound, bam, powells launch events. What hannys voorwerp reveals about quasar deaths universe. The english teacher has become an inadvertent science hero even inspiring an astronomy comic book called hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp. The green hornet is a comic book hero who dresses up like a stinging insect and. She and her team created a comic book based on hannys story, called hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp you can learn more about it at that link. With the launch of the comic hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp, were also launching a competition. Sep 11, 2012 this stirred up quite a storm and in the end, hanny not only got the credit for the discovery, there was a comic book written about the event.

So heres your chance to win a copy of the book, signed by hanny. Theenglish teacher has become aninadvertent science hero even inspiring an astronomy comic book called hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp. Gil kane who called him an extraordinarily powerful inker, carmine infantino, gene colan and jack kirby all benefited from his heavy, robust linework which always helped tell the story in a simple, direct way. Here are all the results with descriptions in hannys voorwerp looking to live somewhere really weird and alternative. Here are all the results with descriptions in hanny s voorwerp looking to live somewhere really weird and alternative. In 2007 while classifying galaxies on the fledgling galaxy zoo website, citizen scientist hanny van arkel came across an object that she was unsure how to. Hannys voorwerp appears to be basking in the afterglow of an agn that shut itself down within the past 200,000 years a moment ago, astronomically speaking. Meet the accidental astronomer who inspired a comic book.

Then there was this american team of artists and astronomers that turned the whole discovery into a comic book. Hansi, the girl who loved the swastika 19731976 comic books. The sun and the water cycle in comic form join camillaspace with the girls sofia and marisol, and discover that without the sun there would be no water cycle. With only a few more hours to go to the official launch of the comic hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp, were. Dutch school teacher stars in american comic astron. In this comic book, we try and tell the story of what it was like for the people involved and how exactly astronomy in its not exactly indiana jones fashion can be an amazing adventure. Many of you especially galaxy zoo fans will probably already know the story of dutch schoolteacher hanny and her mystery voorwerp, but for those of you who dont, here it is. Vocus august 27, 2010 the true story of hannys voorwerp is now a comic book produced by two art and design students from southern illinois university edwardsville under the guidance of researcher pamela gay in the siue center for science, technology, engineering and mathematics stem research, education and outreach. Glowing strongly in the greenish light produced by ionized oxygen atoms, the mysterious voorwerp is below spiral galaxy ic 2497 in this view from the hubble space telescope. Aug 20, 2010 sometimes, as an astronomer, i get to do some really weird stuff. Jan 11, 2011 the hubble space telescope has captured an image of a green cloud of gas about 650 million lightyears from earth. Since both hannys voorwerp dutch for hannys object and ic 2497 are.

Hannys voorwerp history of a mystery daily zooniverse. Its been named hanny s voorwerp, dutch for hanny s object. First of all a big thank you to everybody asking me about this. A couple of years ago i got the chance to work on a project for galaxy zoo, nasa, and the hubble space telescope with my astronomer friend dr. You are currently browsing the tag archive for the green tag. She and her team created a comic book based on hannys story, called hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp. Hannys voorwerp is a popular topic of conversation due to its novel discovery by hanny van arkel perusing images from the galaxy zoo project. The outburst may have triggered star formation in hannys voorwerp. Jan 21, 2011 hannys voorwerp appears to be basking in the afterglow of an agn that shut itself down within the past 200,000 years a moment ago, astronomically speaking. Explore the universe through the eyes of two japanese girls in this new manga comic based book. University of alabama astronomy professor bill keel credits southern illinois university astronomy professor pamela gay with the idea of a comic book.

Radio observations show that hannys voorwerp is actually part of a long stream of gas about 300,000 lightyears long connected to ic 2497. Hannys voorwerp official website of discoverer hanny. This morning i tried looking it up on the internet and my charts. For another, it was actually discovered in 2007 by an amateur galaxy zoo project volunteer, hanny van arkel, a dutch school teacher. We spoke to van arkel about the story behind her discovery, the hullabaloo after, and how it feels to become an accidental astronomer. Nov 12, 2014 and people turned you into a comic book, right. Hannys voorwerp turned out to be a small part of a 300,000lightyearlong streamer of gas, located about 650 million lightyears from earth. The object is illuminated by a beam of light from a quasar that may have gone dark 200,000 years ago, according to the space telescope science institute in baltimore. Based loosely on the book of the same name, about the true story of maria hirschmann, a czechoslovakian girl who became a nazi during wwii, got forced into a russian labor camp, and eventually found her way to america and the christian faith. Nov 03, 2010 what hannys voorwerp reveals about quasar deaths caption hannys voorwerp is a popular topic of conversation due to its novel discovery by hanny van arkel perusing images from the galaxy. Groundbased optical image of ic 2497 top, hannys voorwerp bottom, and a nearby companion galaxy left. In comics from 1941, frank giacoias smooth, thick line has been recognizable over a surfeit of outstanding pencillers. Astronomers begin observing hannys voorwerp with the hubble.

Hubble finds ghostly object in deep space this just in. The voorwerp is about the size of our milky way galaxy and is part of a 300,000lightyearlong stream of gas, the institute says. It was discovered in 2007 by dutch schoolteacher hanny van arkel while she was participating as a volunteer in the galaxy zoo project, part of the zooniverse group of citizen science websites. Writers for the comic book, titled hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp, were recruited at convergence, a threeday fantasy and science fiction conference in bloomington, minn. With only a few more hours to go to the official launch of the comic hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp, were already launching an online competition. Less than 200,000 years ago, the quasar dropped in brightness by 100 times or. Because of her discovery, hanny was invited to the sky at night, to explain about the project and what had happened a few days later she is guest. Im posting a few panels in below as well as this link to the free downloadable pdf version of the comic. This image is a composite of blue, visual, and near infrared light images takn with the wiyn telescope. The comic, which will also appear on the internet and as a book, will be presented officially on friday 3 september in atlanta usa during the worlds largest science. According to a team led by kevin schawinski yale university, the shutdown likely was much more recent, within the past 70,000 years.

The sdss gri composite image is shown below, a 101arcsecond square region. A 40page comic and associated promotional offers about hsv and the story surrounding it were presented at the 24th dragon con in. The project was a comic illustrating an amazingly nifty discovery in astronomy called hannys voorwerp im posting a few panels in below as well as this link to the free. Hannys voorwerp groundbased optical image of ic 2497. Hannys voorwerp groundbased optical image of ic 2497 top, hannys voorwerp bottom. Galaxy zoo where the voorwerp was discovered, and you can make discoveries of your own hannys voorwerp in hannys words. Also for it to be that large at such a distance, were talking galactic size, would be unprecedented. The true story of hannys voorwerp is now a comic book produced by two art and design students from southern illinois university edwardsville under the guidance of researcher pamela gay in the siue center for science, technology, engineering and mathematics stem research, education and outreach. Sep 03, 2010 she and her team created a comic book based on hanny s story, called hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp you can learn more about it at that link. Writers for the comic book, titled hanny and the mystery of the voorwerp,were recruited at convergence, a threeday fantasy and science fiction conference in bloomington, minn. Both lie at a distance of some 650 million lightyears. A team of astronomers and artists, mostly from america, created a comic book about. Managing scientific inquiry in a laboratory the size of the.

For one thing, there was no obvious explanation of why this cloud was so ionized. What appears to be a gaping hole in hannys voorwerp actually may be a shadow cast by an object in the quasars light path, according to the institute. The story of how i discovered hannys voorwerp and of our quest to find out what it is. The tale has become so well known, it was made into. Science combines with art to produce educational comic book. Hannys voorwerp ground based optical image of ic 2497 top, hannys voorwerp bottom. Scientists suggested that a quasar in a nearby galaxy, known as ic 2497, was shining on hannys voorwerp, lighting up the oxygen in the streamer with a greenish glow. So we eventually found out what hannys voorwerp was and got a really cool picture from the hubble space telescope.