Stephen Hawking has a new hobby in his belt, and this time it's not making guest spots on "Star Trek" or "The Simpsons." Instead, he's turning to astrophotography, using a computer-controlled telescope and camera assembly to capture ground-based pictures of solar system bodies, stellar objects, and cosmic collisions.
Hawking is using a consumer grade Celestron telescope, so this is one easy way to be like the man for whom Hawking Radiation is named. Check out some of his shots:
A cosmic ray collision is in view, along with two galaxies.
There's the surface of the moon (which you really should leave up to the computers and not the naked eye as reflected sunlight can still hurt your eyes).
The Orion Nebula looking rather pretty.
There's more info over at the Cambridge University News site. We're looking forward to Stephen's next shots.
Source: io9
