Nidia Morrell

Nidia Morrell
Born
Nidia Irene Morrell

(1953-07-03) 3 July 1953 (age 71)
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Alma materNational University of La Plata
OccupationAstronomer
EmployerLas Campanas Observatory

Nidia Irene Morrell (born 3 July 1953) 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. Professionally, she is known for her numerous contributions related to the astrophysics of massive stars.[1] 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.

  1. ^ "NASA/ADS search". Astrophysics Data System. Retrieved 10 June 2019.