According to SpaceRef.com, a distant family member was involved in the ground-breaking detection of a astrophysical radio jet from an outbursting dwarf nova. And God, do I wish I was smart enough to understand the significance of that. But here's the skinny:Stanislaw Swierczynski, a variable star observer in Poland, was the first to detect a possible outburst of SS Cygni on April 24, 2007. Within a few hours observers in Canada, the United States, Norway, and Finland provided the confirmation that an outburst was indeed underway.
Note: This very well may be a different Swierczynski from the one who was all up in the stars, binaries and cataclysmic variables. Yes!
(Third in an occasional series. Have you spotted another Swierczynski in the news? Let Secret Dead Blog know!)
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