PLEASE DON'T FEED THE GALAXIES

My mother recently sent me a link to an article about a 'blob' spotted in space by the Hubble telescope. Actually, the blob's image was captured by the telescope but discovered by Dutch Schoolteacher Hanny Van Arkel who is an active volunteer with Galaxy Zoo. Galaxy Zoo allows its volunteers to observe hundreds of thousands of images of space in the hopes of creating a data base to further categorize and ultimately better understand the nature of galaxies. In some cases the unexpected discovery may bubble to the surface and, who knows, you might end up with some ancient mysterious mass of gas named after you. I'm going to go volunteer as soon as possible, and I think I'll name my first celestial anomaly after my mom!