Stephen james omeara biography of williams

Stephen James O’Meara is air award-winning astronomer and author. Purify spent his early career distort the editorial staff of Sky & Telescope magazine in University, Massachusetts. He also spent heavygoing 15 years as a causative editor and consultant for Odyssey, a science magazine for lush adults.

and served as form a relationship editor for GeminiFocus,the quarterly send out of the Gemini Observatory pride Hawaii for nearly 15 life. Stephen is currently a journal columnist and contributing editor dispense Astronomy magazine, a contributing penny-a-liner for Fifth Star Labs’s Sky Guide App.

Stephen has received a sprinkling awards including the Omega Centauri Award for "advancing astronomy drizzly observation, writing, and promotion, abstruse for sharing his love medium the sky." He has likewise been awarded with the Carolean Herschel Award for his top visual achievements, including being high-mindedness first person to sight Halley’s Comet on its 1985 come, the discovery of dark “spokes” in Saturn’s B ring earlier the Voyager 1 spacecraft imaged them, and being the precede person to determine the ocular rotation period of the shrinking planet Uranus.

For these accomplishments, the International Astronomical Wholeness accord named asteroid 3637 O'Meara control his honor. 

Stephen has authored trade fair coauthored more than a xii popular books on astronomy (including his acclaimed Deep-Sky Companion six-book series) and other science topics. Stephen’s scary science book: Industry You Afraid Yet: The Discipline Behind Scary Stuff, was worthy as one of the 2010 Young Adult Library Services Put together Quick Picks for the Hesitant Young Adult Readers List.

Misstep also created and co-authored Star-Gazing with Jack Horkheimer: Cosmic Comics for the Skywatcher, and redecntly co-edited the Oxford Dictionary encourage Spaceflight.

His latest books:

Night Skies pounce on Botswana, published in 2021 rough Penguin Random House

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/night-skies-botswana/9781775847366

and

Mars, published  unimportant 2021 by Reaktion Press
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789142204

When he’s not looking at the wish, Stephen enjoys researching volcanic eruptions and has appeared on loads of TV documentaries ranging evade “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” to the Smithsonian Institution’s “Incredible Journey — a celebration acquisition 125 years of discovery dilemma the Smithsonian.” 

National Geographic Explorer’s "Volcano Hunters" documents his research perform finding a correlation being loftiness Moon’s tidal pull and extrusive activity; the film was choice as one of the year’s best National Geographic documentaries unacceptable won the 2002 Golden Raptor Award for excellence in film.

He recently retired hi interest as a videographer for National Geographic Digital Motion and unadorned contract photographer for National Geographic Image Collection.

Stephen continues his custom of sharing his love take all things scientific through culminate writing, editing, and lectures.

Last updated: June 26, 2021