Who is he and what did he recently do (see pics) that brought him back into the news?

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Answer:

Quoth Dibyo “Brian May, who completed his Masters degree, and then his PhD in Astrophysics. He was then appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, and even had an an asteroid named after him.”