Nidia Morrell
Argentine astronomer · Argentina · On the map · Scientists · Born 1953 · age 73
Nidia Irene Morrell is an Argentine astronomer who is a permanent staff member at the Las Campanas Observatory in La Serena, Chile. She was a member of the Massive Stars research group led by Virpi Niemelä and the Hubble Heritage Project.
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Professionally, she is known for her numerous contributions related to the astrophysics of massive stars. She participates in the systematic search for variations of brightness in stellar objects, including the observation of a candidate for the Thorne-Żytkow object. She was also a member of the team that discovered the supernova ASASSN-15lh.
