But I hate it when articles about astronomy tell us about these things without also telling us WHERE they are located at. Which constellation are they in the direction of?? Who knows, maybe some of us have telescopes that we want to try to aim at it
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If they told you, you would aim your twin 10 meter backyard scopes and see them for yourself? Else you are not going to see anything but stars and blackness.
A few years ago I swing my humble 4-inch refractor toward the location in the sky of Voyager 2. I couldn't see that either. But it was a pretty nice feeling all the same, knowing that I was looking at the place where the most distant object made by man is speeding away from us into interstellar space.
Ditto on your complaint. I backtracked through several articles. The paper itself is paywalled. However, supplemental info on a graph gives approx celestial coordinates of:
declination 60.27 deg
RA 232.38 deg
I’ll convert that to a marker star and constellation later.
Good thing i don’t have to find it in my sextant while standing on a pitching deck.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07879-y/figures/5
Constellation Draco
closest bright star in Draco
iota Draco named ‘Edasich’
15h25m28.67s 58d52’32.0”
HD137827 8.31 mag
15h25m48.6s 59d53’07.6”
HD138265 5.90 mag
15h28m20.53s 60d34’51.6”
closest in HD catalog < magnitude 9
HD139438 8.52 mag
15h35m31.73s 60d10’22.1”
I’d post screen shots of sky maps but don’t know how to conveniently upload them. Suggest you enter the RA and declination values into the “find” “coord” function of Stellarium. It is free, exquisite, and at rev 25.3