Professor Quentin A. Parker, Director of the Laboratory for Space Research at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), along with four amateur astronomers, Pascal Le Dû, Thomas Petit, Lionel Mulato, and Olivier Garde, won the 2022 French Gemini Prize.
The Gemini Prize is created jointly by the Astronomical Society of France (SAF) and the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A). The award is given to recognize remarkable professional-amateur collaboration in astronomy and related sciences.
SF2A presents the award at a symposium held in Besancon, France, on June 10 to recognize the team’s confirmed discovery of a significant new sample of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (the beautiful glowing dust and gas that shrouds a dying star)….