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A young amateur astronomer from Coventry has won a prestigious award for his star-gazing talents.
Cameron Watson, 16, is a sixth former at Kenilworth Castle College.
The youngster won the British Astronomical Associations most recently instituted award - The Sir Patrick Moore Prize.
The prize was named after the astronomer who hosted the BBC programme The Sky At Night for 55 years and who died in 2012.
The prize is awarded to individuals for one or more areas of activity which reflects Sir Patricks life, including outstanding observational work by a member or members under 21 years of age, a contribution to the understanding of the history of astronomy or the encouragement of a public interest in astronomy.
Cameron will be awarded the prize, consisting of a certificate and monetary award, on Saturday, December 13 in London at an event attended by Sir Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal.
The A-level student became fascinated with astronomy after his grandmother introduced him to the subject three years ago.
Since then he has spread his love of the night sky to other young people.
Whilst studying at Bablake School in Coventry, he set up the Bablake Astronomical Society.
Cameron is now a member of the Earlsdon-based Coventry and Warwickshire Astronomical Society which meets twice a month on a Friday evening at the Methodist Church.
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If the European Space Agency (ESA) can put a probe on a reckless comet out beyond the orbit of Mars, suddenly sending humans to the Red Planet seems altogether doable. Coupled with last weeks successful test launch of NASAs Orion spacecraft, talk of astronaut encampments on Mars now actually appears credible.
If so, where would the first manned mission to Mars choose to set up shop?
There are three basic criteria for picking a Mars manned landing site a spot thats sustainable in terms of water, energy generation and building materials. One thats scientifically interesting for a lengthy mission. And, most importantly, one that is safe to land. Thus far, most researchers remain wary of committing themselves to any given site. But theres no time thats too early to get [the site selection process] started, John Grant, a planetary scientist at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., told Forbes. The more imaging and radar data youre able to collect about a site; the better your odds of satisfying all the constraints.
Grant, who was co-chair of NASAs Mars Curiosity Rover landing site steering committee, doesnt think a human landing site selection process would look a whole lot different from that for the Mars rovers. Engineering, science and resource criteria would drive the process forward, with the overarching idea, he says, being that if you dont land safely, you dont get anything.
West of Valles Marineris lies a checkerboard named Noctis Labyrinthus, which formed when the Martian crust stretched and fractured. As faults opened, they released subsurface ice and water, causing the ground to collapse. This westward view combines images taken during the period from April 2003 to September 2005 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on NASAs Mars Odyssey orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Here is a countdown of five top possibilities as suggested by Brian Hynek, a planetary scientist and Director of the Center for Astrobiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
5) Martian lava tubes and caves.
These equatorial lava caves were only discovered in the last few years by images that identified skylights, or breaks in the top of a buried lava tube, Hynek told Forbes. He says that a potential landing site near the large shield volcano Pavonis Mons in the Tharsis region hosts a number of lava caves which could shelter astronauts shelter from deadly cosmic and solar radiation as well as provide a constant ambient temperature.
Hynek also notes that the proximity to such volcanic sites would offer astronauts a scientific boon. Thats because understanding Mars volcanic history would constrain models of the planets interior and climate, and determine when its volcanoes were actually active.
Pros: The astronauts wouldnt get cancer in three months, which may be a possibility if they are sitting on the surface for that long, said Hynek.
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TIME Science astronomy Snapshots of the Heavens: Amazing Astronomy Photos The Royal Observatory culled through over 800 entries from astronomers and astro-photographers around the world to release its compilation of the best astronomy photos of 2012. Astronomy Photographer of the Year is run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich and Sky at Night Magazine. The competition drew a wide array of subjects captured by amateur and professional photographers from around the globe.
The Royal Observatory has culled through over 800 entries from astronomers and astro-photographers around the world to release its compilation of the best astronomy photos of 2012. The contest is run by Royal Observatory Greenwich and Sky at Night Magazine.
Should you have plans to be in London, an exhibition featuring the work is on display at the Royal Observatory Greenwich Planetarium throughout October 2012 in The Universe Exposed: photographing the cosmos.
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Image Caption: Radio-optical overlay image of galaxy J1649+2635. Yellow is visible-light image; Blue is the radio image, indicating the presence of jets. Credit: Mao et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has found an important new example of a very rare type of galaxy that may yield valuable insight on how galaxies developed in the early Universe. The new discovery technique promises to give astronomers many more examples of this important and mysterious type of galaxy.
The galaxy they studied, named J1649+2635, nearly 800 million light-years from Earth, is a spiral galaxy, like our own Milky Way, but with prominent jets of subatomic particles propelled outward from its core at nearly the speed of light. The problem is that spiral galaxies are not supposed to have such large jets.
The conventional wisdom is that such jets come only from elliptical galaxies that formed through the merger of spirals. We dont know how spirals can have these large jets, said Minnie Mao, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
J1649+2635 is only the fourth jet-emitting spiral galaxy discovered so far. The first was found in 2003, when astronomers combined a radio-telescope image from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and a visible-light image of the same object from the Hubble Space Telescope. The second was revealed in 2011 by images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the VLA, and the third, found earlier this year, also was discovered by combining radio and visible-light images.
In order to figure out how these jets can be produced by the wrong kind of galaxy, we realized we needed to find more of them, Mao said.
To do that, the astronomers looked for help. That help came in the form of large collections of images from both radio and optical telescopes, and the hands-on assistance of volunteer citizen scientists. The volunteers are participants in an online project called the Galaxy Zoo, in which they look at images from the visible-light Sloan Digital Sky Survey and classify the galaxies as spiral, elliptical, or other types. Each galaxy image is inspected by multiple volunteers to ensure accuracy in the classification.
So far, more than 150,000 Galaxy Zoo participants have classified some 700,000 galaxies. Mao and her collaborators used a superclean subset of more than 65,000 galaxies, for which 95 percent of those viewing each galaxys image agreed on the classification. About 35,000 of those are spiral galaxies. J1649+2635 had been classified by 31 Galaxy Zoo volunteers, 30 of whom agreed that it is a spiral.
Next, the astronomers decided to cross-match the visible-light spirals with galaxies in a catalog that combines data from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty Centimeters survey, both done using the VLA. This job was done by Ryan Duffin, a University of Virginia undergraduate working as an NRAO summer student. Duffins cross-matching showed that J1649+2635 is both a spiral galaxy and has powerful twin radio jets.
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MORE than 150 primary school pupils searched for the stars at Barnard Castle School today (November 3).
Thats after physics teacher, Steve Wrathmall, gave the Year 5 and 6 pupils from Staindrop, St Marys, Stratford and Hepworth Primary Schools a master class workshop in Astronomy.
Dr Wrathmall held the interactive workshop, which is the third one the school has held, in an attempt to inspire the children about physics.
And it wasnt just comets and the stars up for discussion as he also showed them some Christmas Dinner table tricks such as how to levitate tinsel and create a flying teabag.
Both the pupils and staff were so impressed that they have already enquired about further workshops.
Dr Wrathmall said: Physics is a special subject. It affects our lives in so many ways every day.
But it also allows us to explore the universe within the classroom, to ask many fundamental questions about the world around us, and tries to answers some of the most important, often basic, questions we can ask.
It is an evolving, continuously changing subject which makes it ever more exciting.
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by Elizabeth Howell on December 5, 2014
Its hard to do many types of astronomy in the daylight, so that can be a good time to do a different kind of observing enjoying the architecture of the telescope! This new video shot by a drone shows off Yerkes Observatory in snowy Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The video was uploaded by Adam Novak.
Yerkes, which is operated by the University of Chicago, calls itself the birthplace of modern astrophysics because it combined astronomical observations with experimentation in physics and chemistry. Thats something thats normal in astronomy today, but certainly not in 1897.
Observations began with a 40-inch refractor (billed as the biggest such telescope ever finished) that weighs about 20 tons. While the telescope itself is from the turn of the century, the means of moving it is much more modern from about 50 years ago, according to a National Park Service book on the observatory:
The telescope was modernized in 1969 permitting more accurate and rapid setting of the position of the telescope. The efficiency of the telescope was further increased by the addition of an automatically guiding camera. The driving clock, by which the telescope is made to follow the stars, consists of a synchronous motor controlled by an electronic oscillator, the frequency of which can he set so as to make the telescope follow the sun, the moon, or stars.
You can learn more about Yerkes on the official website.
A drone shot of Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. Credit: Adam Novak / Vimeo (screenshot)
Elizabeth Howell is the senior writer at Universe Today. She also works for Space.com, Space Exploration Network, the NASA Lunar Science Institute, NASA Astrobiology Magazine and LiveScience, among others. Career highlights include watching three shuttle launches, and going on a two-week simulated Mars expedition in rural Utah. You can follow her on Twitter @howellspace or contact her at her website.
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