Astrophiz 55-Kathryn Neugent-Runaway Star

Published: April 12, 2018, 8:48 a.m.

b"Our feature interview is with Kathryn Neugent,\\xa0who is\\xa0PhD Astronomy student researching massive stars at the University of Washington in Seattle, research associate at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, discoverer of an amazing runaway Yellow Supergiant in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Photographer, Backpacker, and animal lover pretty much anywhere and everywhere!\\n\\nFollow @KathrynNeugent on Twitter and her blog at\\xa0http://kathrynneugent.com\\n\\nFind out about massive Wolf-Rayet stars and Kathryn's team's discovery of a new class of WR Stars, and a new mystery for astronomers to grapple with. This is a wonderful example of how great science, while answering one question, will point to new avenues of discovery.\\xa0\\n\\nFor observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian Musgrave gives us \\u2018What\\u2019s Up Doc\\u2019 and he tells us what to look for in our morning and evening skies, what planets, galaxies and nebula to look for and what occultations are happening. In Ian's Tangent, we look at a solar flare likely to eliminate \\xa0the possibility of life (as we know it) on exoplanets orbiting our nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri B.\\n\\nIn the news;\\n*ICRAR - Interstellar visitor found in MWA data\\n*Hubble produces image of a star 9 billion light years away, using a combination of gravitational lensing and microlensing."