New Owl Nebula Photo Wins Student's Choice Contest

[mickw]

A new image of the Owl Nebula taken by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii is the result of a student essay contest in Canada, where students picked their favorite object in the sky in hopes the observatory would snap a photo of it.

The space photo contest invited high school students from across Canada to choose their favorite object in the sky and explain in an essay why they would like the Gemini science team to observe it. Four professional astronomers and science educators reviewed the almost 50 entries sent in to select a winner.

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