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UW astronomers Breanna Binder and Ben Williams, along with the help of undergraduates Jacob Gross and Daniel Simons, were recently reminded that the diplomatic axiom to “trust, but verify” also applies to scientific inquiry when they analyzed fresh data from a distant galaxy. As they reported in July in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a puzzling stellar phenomenon may not be what other astronomers had reported. Read more at UW Today.