Amateur astronomer, Nick Howes, has taken the first pictures showing...

A cracked comet
March 24, 2010
C2007 Q3 Siding Spring as imaged by Nick Howes using the Faulkes
Telescope North

http://www.physorg.com/news188670462.html

(PhysOrg.com) -- A leading amateur astronomer has made a major
astronomical discovery thanks to a sophisticated educational telescope
project led by Cardiff University astronomers.

Amateur astronomer, Nick Howes, has taken the first pictures showing a
split in the icy nucleus of Comet C2007 C3 using a remote-controlled
telescope through the Faulkes Telescope Project based in the School of
Physics and Astronomy.

See: http://www.physorg.com/news188670462.html