[ngcles]

Hi Trevor & All,

Originally Posted by Quark

This is a link to the full story which is in the current edition of The Swinburne Magazine supplement which was in The Australian 25th March 2009.
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/magazine/

Thanks for posting the link to Swinburne Magazine. The short article in the Fairfax press posted earlier (and it's not MikeyB's fault) was so "boiled-down" that I had almost no idea what it was reporting.

First (in par 2) it says the new object is "in isolation", then later (par 4) said it was within M104. What par 4 is trying to say, is, well, hard to say.The whole short article is very confusing. No wonder lay-people sometimes find astronomy so incomprehensible.

The Swinburne Magazine article, despite being written for a "scientific publication" and a scientific audience explains the new finding simply (in a way that can be comprehended by most people) but equally, fully. Yes, I know it's longer and I know there is only limited space in newspapers (even broadsheets) but ...

Thanks for clearing up my confusion Trevor!


Best,

Les D