First of all – a big thank you to everybody asking me about this! It’s nice to know so many people are interested. And now I can tell you all: you can pre-order the comic “Hanny and the mystery of the Voorwerp” since today!
This is the cover page. Click it to see how to order [...]
Official release:
This past Monday, at about 8pm Central (GMT -5), a Voorwerpish webcomic was delivered to Sips Comics for printing. Tuesday morning we got the page proofs, and now, one by one, they are being made into full color reality.
We could say a lot of things right now: We could tell you about playing round [...]
A while ago we (the team of astronomers involved in the investigation of Hanny’s Voorwerp and me) asked for funding to do some really cool outreach work. Good outreach work is important, so that every citizen is able to find out what those scientists discovered. And I’ve told a lot of people I would tell [...]
As Hanny’s Voorwerp said itself, on twitter (!), it’s in the spotlights a lot again lately. And I do realise lots of people are waiting to see another picture of Hanny’s Voorwerp – one taken with the Hubble Space Telescope – but this is very cool too!
I love Google. Edd asked it to send me ‘alerts’ [...]
As announced earlier, the Hubble Space Telescope recently opened its eyes in the direction of Hanny’s Voorwerp and the nearby galaxy named ‘IC 2497’. The first set of pictures were taken Easter Sunday and appeared in my mailbox not much later than that.
Last Monday, the 12th of April, was the second big day for our [...]
