Amateur astronomer discovers faint galaxy that computers missed
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Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Mutlu-Pakdil
Giuseppe Donatiello, an amateur astronomer, spotted a faint galaxy that a computer algorithm failed to distinguish. This discovery was later confirmed using the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy in question is Donatiello II. It is among the three galaxies that escaped the attention of the algorithm designed to look through astronomical data in search of galaxy candidates.
