Peter Tuthill News Today

Letters to the editors for the September 2023 issue of Scientific American

University of Sydney partners with Spiral Blue for the TOLIMAN space telescope mission to look for using artificial intelligence. Backed by the Breakthrough Initiatives, Professor Peter Tuthill will lead a team to launch a satellite telescope to look for habitable planets around our nearest neighbour, . A team led by astronomer Professor Peter Tuthill at the University of Sydney has announced a partnership with Sydney-based space technology company, Spiral Blue, for the TOLIMAN Space Telescope

The doomed class of stars named Wolf-Rayets produce mysterious pinwheel shapes

Imagine your new space telescope can capture more precise data for your project to find life in space but files are too big to download. What to do?

The hunt to find planets in Alpha Centauri, our nearest galaxy, from alow earth orbit on a shoestring budget

University of Sydney has a deal with microsatellite provider to carry into orbit new camera system to view Alpha Centauri planets.

Dust plumes observed being ‘pushed’ into interstellar space by intense starlight

The distant star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had lit up the internet with theories and speculation.

Two rare stars whipping around one another in a wide, wild tango have given astronomers a unique opportunity to study the gentle slap of light against their dusty skirts.

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can push matter