CNN :: Science & Space

Armchair astronomer spies 'cosmic ghost'

Hanny van Arkel was poring over photos of galaxies on the Internet last August when she stumbled across a strange object in the night sky: a bright, gaseous mass with a gaping hole in its middle. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_space?a=QXVyBS"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_space?i=QXVyBS" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=sGxEL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=sGxEL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=9lc7L"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=9lc7L" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=Fjjvl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=Fjjvl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=cDKdL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=cDKdL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=WYnNl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=WYnNl" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_space/~4/396214897" height="1" width="1"/>