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Hanny van Arkel

A Dutch schoolteacher and amateur astronomer who became famous in 2007 for discovering a rare astronomical phenomenon while volunteering for the Galaxy Zoo project. Her find, a massive ionized gas cloud now known as Hanny's Voorwerp, demonstrated the significant impact that citizen scientists can have on professional astrophysical research and led to the discovery of a new class of cosmic objects.

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