Stars twinkle when viewed from the ground, so how can you study exoplanets around distant stars without orbiting telescopes? Scientists at the University of Sydney have come up with an ingenious solution.
Professor Geraint F Lewis was born and raised in Old South Wales, and completed degrees in London and Cambridge before undertaking research in Canada and the US.
For 40 years, scientists have thought such a star existed, now an international team including astronomers from the University of Sydney have detected a star that pulsates on just one side. They expect to find more.
Wolf-Rayet stars are one in a hundred million in our Galaxy. When paired in a binary system they can make among the most stunning ribbon structures known to astronomy. While on COVID lockdown, University of Sydney student Yinuo Han precisely
Professor GeraintLewis FRSC FLSW, Pollock Memorial lectureship. Professor GeraintLewis is a Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astrophysics in the Faculty of Science who focuses on cosmological