William (Will) Cerny

@wcerny.bsky.social

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Astronomer-in-training. Formerly: Univ. of Chicago, now at Yale Astronomy. Big fan of the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies! he/him I don't really have a personal website yet but here's my science: https://wcerny.github.io/compactsatellites/

Stellar density map centered on the new diffuse dwarf galaxy candidate, showing a clear concentration of black points indicative of the dwarf galaxy's presence. At the bottom of the image, an elliptical concentration of stars associated with its host, the LMC-mass galaxy NGC 55, are visible. The satellite appears to be about 1/3 the diameter of its host!