* Astronomy

On Wednesday, February 21st, came remarkable news: another nova has apparently gone off in Scorpius, and it's a mere 3° due south of the first!
Yuji Nakamura, codiscoverer of the first one, found the likely nova at magnitude 9.3 on two CCD images taken at February 19.86 Universal Time. A day later, at February 20.85 UT, K. Itagaki confirmed the new star; it's at right ascension 16h 56m 59s, declination –35° 21.8' (2000.0 coordinates). He judged it to be magnitude 8.8. What's likely to be named "Nova Scorpii 2007 Number 2" was also independently discovered by Hideo Nishimura on the morning of the 20th Japanese time; he called it magnitude 9.2.

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