European Association for Astronomy Education

Due to the requests of many teachers all around Europe, the deadline for the submission of Catch a Star's works has been postponed to October 30th, 2011.

Teachers say that they have done the work with their students but in many cases have not been able to finish the translation of their work to English.

Since July and August are Summer vacations time in almost all countries EAAE has decided to extend the contest until the end of October. This will give students an opportunity to finish their works. It will also be an opportunity for more teachers to apply with works of their students.

Source: ESO Science Release eso1122

An artist’s rendering of the most distant quasar.
Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser.

A team of European astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope and a host of other telescopes to discover and study the most distant quasar found to date. This brilliant beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe. The results will appear in the 30 June 2011 issue of the journal Nature. (read more)