High-school students

Razvan Patrolea, Lorenzo Apollonio, Elena Pecchini, Cinzia Torrente, Bartolomeo Bottazzi-Baldi and Martino Giobbio from Liceo scientifico G.B. Grassi in Saronno, Italy.

These six students discovered a peculiar X-ray source in the archive of ESA’s XMM-Newton during a two-week internship at INAF, Milan, in September 2017.

Full story: Students digging into data archive spot mysterious X-ray source

(Photo via INAF)