Stars align for UVic student, resulting in a cosmic thrill

VICTORIA — The celestial observation in August of two neutron stars colliding and merging the first such event ever seen and recorded on Earth, has left one UVic astronomer thrilled and another one envious.
Clare Higgs, a PhD student in the department of astronomy and physics at the University of Victoria, just happened to be at the Los Campanas Observatory in Chile on Aug. 17 when word went out of something unusual appearing in sky.
“There was a whole bunch of people milling about,