Astronomy student Chris Carr
Last summer, a graduate of Western Reserve University, Case, noticed a “spot” in deep images of the sky taken by the Barrell-Schmidt telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in southwest Arizona.
The stain was so weak that it was barely caught. But he reported this to the professor of astronomy Chris Mikhos, with whom he had been working for the last two weeks. Studying the coordinates, they found an unexpected find. Everything points to a new galaxy at a distance of 37 million light years.
Mikhos announced the discovery on Twitter and thanked the student for the “big-eyedness”. Carr's discovery is part of the galactic group of Leo I. The origin is still mysterious, but scientists note that this is the object with the smallest brightness surface ever discovered with the help of light.
