Looking Up Tonight: Kemble 2, the "Little Queen" in Draco

 

Asterisms are a recognizable pattern or grouping of stars in the night sky that is not one of the officiallly recognized constellations. Constellations are baiscally official neighborhoods used by astronomers and amateur astronomers to divide the sky into areas. Asterisms are the unofficial, easy to spot landmarks either within or between them.

Father Lucian Kemble is a famous amateur astronomer who is known for finding many asterisms in our night sky. Kemble 2 is one of his disovered.

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Finding the Giants in the Crumbs: The Discovery of Andromenda XXXVI A Dwarf Galaxy to Messier 31

 

There is a distinct magic to looking at archival survey data. For most people, a wide-field professional survey like the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) is a collection of pretty pictures or an overwhelming dataset of numbers. But for an observer, it’s a treasure map.

Just recently, a fascinating new paper was published in Astronomy & Astrophysics detailing the discovery of a brand-new ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxy orbiting our massive neighbor, M31. The name? Andromeda XXXVI.

What makes this discovery incredibly special—and why I wanted to share it with you all today—is how it was found. It wasn't flagged by an advanced machine-learning algorithm or an automated data-mining pipeline. It was found through old-school, systematic visual inspection of public images by an amateur astronomer, Giuseppe Donatiello.

Hearing the Blast of a Star Going Nova

 

Many often think of the night sky as a silent, visual masterpiece. We hunt for the subtle gradients of planetary nebulae or the faint photons of distant galaxy groups to observe and/or image them. But a recent breakthrough out of Texas Tech University reminds us that astronomical data holds dimensions we can experience with more than just our eyes.

Researchers have taken the explosive data from Nova V612 Scuti (also known as ASASSN-17hx) and translated it into a continuous audio track. For the first time, we can literally hear the evolution of a stellar detonation.

Please head over to Eadsy Astronomy LINK to read my article and to get a link to the Texas Tech YouTube video.