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The story of Hanny’s Voorwerp for The Huffington Post

I was asked recently to (re)write my story for The Huffington Post. They translated it to German, which looks like this: “Wie ich in meinem Wohnzimmer berühmt wurde”. Below you can read the English version.  It was an evening in the summer break, August 2007. I was sitting at my desk and – as a […]

National Stargazing Days

Photo: www.sterrenwacht.nl  The Sterrenwacht Limburg was one of the science centres involved in the Nationale Sterrenkijkdagen last weekend and since Steven and I are volunteers now, we went both Friday and Saturday evening. We attracted about 200 visitors in total and it was a lot of fun to see some of them reacting to what […]

¡Ciudadano, la ciencia te llama!

I don’t know what that means, but it’s the title of an article for which I gave an interview recently. It’s written by Laura Chaparro for the Spanish magazine Muy Interesante.  Bookmark It Hide Sites

On Radio Veronica!

Last weekend I was listening to one of my favourite radio stations, when the presenters (Rick & Marlous) were talking about the photo shoot they had recently done. The question of that day was: “At what remarkable location did you have your photo taken?” Other listeners texted exotic holiday destinations and one of them had […]

Hanny’s Voorwerp is a Calendar Model

I remember Bill (lead on our Voorwerp/Hubble paper) told me a while ago that the Voorwerp was going to be featured on a Hubble calendar and now these lovely people are tweeting pictures of this year’s Space calendar! Very cool – thanks for sharing!   Bookmark It Hide Sites