• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    “Magellan was murderous and awful but that isn’t the primary issue,” David W. Hogg, a professor of physics and data science at New York University and Group Leader for astronomical data at the Flatiron Institute, told Space.com. “The primary issue is that the clouds aren’t his discovery.”

    Oops. How did his name even get attached to the clouds in the first place? The article doesn’t give specifics.