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Brian May: Guitar virtuoso, renowned rock star, astronomy Ph.D.

In 1970, long before Queen toured stadiums playing anthems like “We Are the Champions” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” May began his doctoral work at Imperial College London. Now, after he returned to wrap up his doctoral thesis last year, May’s research is being published as a book.

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• Hail a taxi in Paris and you might find yourself on the back of a scooter.

• Scientists this week announced that water once graced the moon’s surface, but how did its seas get their names?

• Will cockroaches actually survive the apocalypse? Don’t count on it, though they’re certainly tough.

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Well, that was a short run.

In May, astronomers noticed that a third red spot had showed up on Jupiter near the famous Great Red Spot and Red Spot Junior, which itself had appeared just two years ago. The third spot—actually an earth-sized storm of swirling gases—had been white, but then showed up as being red in Hubble Space Telescope images.

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