Kevin Harrington recently made headlines for finding the brightest galaxies known to astronomy – galaxies so luminous they were thought impossible. The discovery is important, but what makes the feat extraordinary is that Harrington was still an undergraduate at the time, working in the laboratory of astronomy professor Min Yun at U Mass Amherst. Harrington and his colleagues call their discoveries "outrageously bright galaxies," because there is no technical term for galaxies that give off so