What the Hell is That?

Over the past year, 150,000 amateur astronomers have peeled themselves off the cots in their parents' basements and joined the Galaxy Zoo project, pouring over archival pictures of the universe to help classify galaxies. Hanny van Arkel, a Dutch school teacher, is one of those amateur astronomers, and he's discovered something mysterious hiding in the galactic archives. It's a green, gaseous blob with what appears to be a hole in the center, and no one's really sure why it's there. Hanny's Voorwerp, as it's embarrassingly come to be known, is near galaxy IC 2497, and is illuminated by the remaining light from a now-extinct quasar. The Hubble space telescope will soon be trained on the object to get a closer look, though it's never too early to start a Hanny's Gate suicide cult. I think I heard a remote viewer on Coast to Coast AM say there's a UFO following behind it. More details here.