Amateur Astronomer Discovers New Dwarf Galaxy 3 Million Light Years Away
Astronomy enthusiast Giuseppe Donatiello discovered the galaxy while searching through publicly available astronomical data collected in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys conducted by a range of different telescopes. The findings were followed up by professional astrophysicists, led by Dr. David Martinez-Delgado from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, who used deeper images taken with the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo to confirm the dwarf galaxy. Designated as Pisces VII/Triangulum III (Pisces VII/ Tri III) the dwarf galaxy is either an isolated dwarf galaxy, or it is a satellite galaxy of Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum galaxy (M33) located around 3 million light-years from Earth....