Queen – Guitarist Brian May to Complete PhD – Spending Two Days on Canary Islands

QUEEN guitarist Brian May is to spend two days studying the night sky in the Canary Islands as he completes the PhD he abandoned in 1971 to join QUEEN.

May is going to La Palma to observe the formation of “zodiacal dust clouds.”

The subject forms the basis of a thesis for London’s Imperial College, where he had been studying before deciding to pursue a career with the rock group.

The 60-year-old recently published a book on astronomy with The Sky at Night presenter Sir Patrick Moore.

May is basing himself at the Observatory of the Roque de Los Muchachos on the island of La Palma. More can be found at the BBC.

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