* Astronomy

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is scheduled to confer a medal June 9 on an astronomy professor at National Central University (NCU) in recognition of his achievements on a Saturn exploration space project.
Ip Wing-huen, a professor at NCU's Graduate Institute of Astronomy, is an internationally renowned astronomer and one of the initiators of the "Cassini-Huygens" space mission, an international collaboration project involving NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Ip, along with two other initiators, Daniel Gautier from the Observatoire Meudon and Toby Owen from the University of Hawaii, has been chosen to receive the NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal, NCU said in a press release.

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