Update on SNEWS Campaign
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Star Light, Star Bright
Above: Discovered on May 19, 2023 by Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki, SN 2023ixf (the bright star at lower left) lies 21 million light-years away in the Pinwheel Galaxy.
Cleaning Up VSD
Inconsistencies in the WBVR catalog magnitudes adopted in the Variable Star Database were causing issues for our observers. A major clean-up was in order. | By Sebastián Otero & Tim Lyster
Shattering Shapley’s Universe
Exactly a century ago, on the night of October 5/6, 1923, Edwin Hubble’s photographic observations of a Cepheid variable settled the vexing question of the day: Our Milky Way is not the entire universe.