Scientists unveiled a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type of black hole. By Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey — Published: September 22, 2011
Hermanus Observatory aerial view Hermanus Observatory SW view Hermanus Observatory SE view
THE HERMANUS ASTRONOMY EDUCATION CENTRE & OBSERVATORY The physical facility Hermanus’s Astronomy Education Centre & Observatory (AEC&O) comprises four different structures for differentiated and specific purposes:
Cruising through the Milky Way in your reconnaissance craft, your sensors pick up a powerful radio beacon. Altering your course to take a closer look, you find not a ship in distress, but an ultradense sphere of neutrons, packing a sun’s worth of mass into something the size of a city.
In a function hosted by Overstrand Mayor Councilor Nicolette Botha-Guthrie on 10th August 2011 a ceremony was held to announce the naming of the newly-discovered asteroid Hermanus. In the words of John Saunders, Chairman of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre, this is the story of how Hermanus got its own asteroid:
