Undergraduate student spots a low surface brightness object in the Leo I galaxy group

On: August 22, 2018

Last summer, Case Western Reserve University undergraduate student Chris Carr spotted what looked like a “smudge” on deep sky images taken from the university’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in southwest Arizona.

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