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The next big names in astronomy

The future of astronomical research and space exploration lies with the young men and women at universities around the globe who are just starting out on a career in science. In this Focus, we meet five young post-docs who are already making names for themselves in their given fields. There's Dr Veronica Bray, who spends her days imaging the Moon with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or exploring craters on Jupiter's moons. Dr Leigh Fletcher at the University of Oxford has his hands in the pie of the biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever planned, the joint NASA/ESA Jupiter-Europa-Ganymede mission. Dr David Jess of Queen's University Belfast also has his attention on an object within our Solar System, at the very centre of it in fact: our Sun, and its mysteriously hot corona. Reaching out beyond our planetary neighbourhood, Dr Jim Geach of the University of Durham is seeking to answer the riddle of galaxy formation, while similarly Dr Ben Davies of the University of Leeds and the Rochester Institute of Technology is looking to solve the problem of how the most massive stars form.

Features

• Wolf in the fold• The lure of autumn galaxies• So many galaxies, so little coffee...• Surveying the Gould Belt• The comet planet

Wolf in the fold
A stunning new photograph displays a brilliant Wolf-Rayet star in the Carina Nebula..

The lure of autumn galaxies
Over the next few months our fellow Local Group spiral galaxies, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) will be at their annual best. Neil English describes them to us.

So many galaxies, so little coffee...
It's hard to believe that Galaxy Zoo has only been around for three years, given the huge amount of discoveries the online community science project has made. Alice Sheppard, who runs the Galaxy Zoo forum, fills us in on the details.

Surveying the Gould Belt
Our Solar System finds itself trapped inside a giant ring of star formation, 2,000 light years wide. Gemma Lavender investigates where it came from, and what it can tell us about how stars are born.

The comet planet
A gas giant planet 63 light years away is orbiting its star so closely that it has developed a tail, much like a comet, which is streaming away into space on the stellar wind, finds Keith Cooper.

Regulars

• News Update • Your Views • Key Moments • Drawn to the Universe • The Night Sky • In the Shops • Tech Talk • Astrolistings • Ask Alan • Picture Gallery • Classifieds • Gearheads • Starting from Scratch • Talking Point • Grassroots astronomy •

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