The trophy was presented to the Manchester team by the Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Rees.
It will be called "copernicium", with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Finally, Element 112 is now Copernicium (Cn), named for the astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the universe.
The astronomer Sir Patrick Moore was also awarded an honorary fellowship in recognition of his long-running BBC TV programme, The Sky at Night.
Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute says the astronomer who asked for the pictures was then too busy to look at them.
The astronomer's table will feature a tactile map of the stars.
Since then, only those of us privileged enough to use the marvelous tools of the astronomer have been able to shape this pursuit of cosmic company.
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Instead, astronomers are now faced with vast quantities of data. (The Hubble Space Telescope alone churns out 2 billion bytes per day.) Traditionally, observations remain the exclusive property of the astronomer who made them for one year.
He even told me that he was the only astronomer in the world who had dispensed with telescopes, because he could make out details on the Moon's surface with the naked eye.
In 1877, when the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli drew the first detailed map of Mars, he imagined the planet as an earthly paradise.
The first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed, compiled the most accurate star catalogue of his day as part of this attempt (though the solution was eventually provided by John Harrison, a clock maker who designed a timepiece that was robust enough to withstand the rigours of sea travel, and was thus able to substitute for the stars in the relevant calculations).
Kepler encouraged Galileo to announce publicly his agreement with the sun-centered cosmology of the Polish astronomer monk Copernik, better known to history by the far less euphonious, Latinized name of Copernicus.
"He was not a professionally trained astronomer and yet did professional quality work, particularly when it came to mapping the Moon in the 1950s - I think every astronomer in the world owes something to Patrick Moore, " said ex-BBC science correspondent and fellow astronomer Dr David Whitehouse .
The second was named after the German astronomer Johannes Kepler and launched in 2011.
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The British astronomer and broadcaster died at his West Sussex home on Sunday, aged 89.
First, he made a version of the Galilean telescope, the model the famous Italian astronomer used to observe the moon and sunspots.
"Something out there is pushing the universe, making it expand, making it speed up and we don't know what this is really, " says Bradley Schaefer, the Louisiana State University astronomer who presented the results.
Galileo's most remarkable discoveries, however, and the ones that dictated that it would eventually follow the probe's fiery fate, were made not about Jupiter itself, but (appropriately) about the four large Jovian moons discovered by Galileo Galilei, the 17th-century astronomer after whom the craft was named.
During his 32nd solar eclipse observation, the Harvard-trained astronomer is to study the elusive coronal ring, the outer atmosphere of the sun, which can only be seen when the moon blots out the solar disk.
The far-infrared telescope is named after William Herschel, the 18th Century astronomer who - as we all know - discovered Uranus from his back garden in Bath in the west of England.
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"Previous work has identified potential examples of black holes on their way to merging, but the case presented by Boroson and Lauer is special because the pairing is tighter and the evidence much stronger, " said Jon Miller, an astronomer at the University of Michigan.
Observing the asteroid wasn't easy, said David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
"Planets are the rule rather than the exception, " said lead astronomer Arnaud Cassan at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris.
Galileo soon began to have doubts about this orthodoxy, which he aired in conversation with friends and then in correspondence with other natural philosophers in Europe, particularly the great German astronomer Johannes Kepler.
The work of solar astronomer Mitzi Adams, left, has improved our understanding of the sun's turbulent behavior.
In choosing a name along these hellish lines for P4, the IAU nomenclature committee will try to honor the wishes of its discoverer: planetary astronomer Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in California.
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"If we are correct, this is the first time we are seeing a planet forming inside its natal environment, " said Sascha Quanz, an astronomer at the Swiss university ETH Zurich and leader of the team.
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