Brian May, the founder and guitarist of legendary rock band Queen, has just completed publication of his doctoral thesis in astrophysics.
After taking 30 years off to play some guitar, May has finally finished his thesis, which looks into the mysterious marvel known as Zodiacal light. The phenomenon is otherwise referred to as a misty dispersed cone of light that becomes visible in the eastern sky before sunrise and in the western sky following sunset.
May’s effort, entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, is centered on the Fabry-Perot Spectrometer, a device that recorded 250 scans of morning and evening Zodiacal light that occurred between 1971 and 1972. The implement can be found at the Observatorio del Teide at Izana in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.
The rocker declared, “I have thoroughly enjoyed my years playing guitar and recording music with Queen, but it’s extremely gratifying to see the publication of my thesis.”
He added, “I’ve been fascinated with astronomy for years, and I was happy to finally complete my Ph.D. last year and record my studies of the Zodiacal Light in this book.”
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