Gomez’s Hamburger

Gomez’s Hamburger (IRAS 18059–3211) is another of those deep-sky objects with a strange name. Arturo Gomez, an astronomer at Chile’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, discovered it in 1985. As celestial burgers go, this one is plain — no cheese or condiments, just a light-colored bun with dark meat in between. The nature of this magnitudeContinue reading “Gomez’s Hamburger”
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