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Ben Sutlieff

@bensutlieff.bsky.social

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Astronomy postdoc and incoming Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, researching exoplanets and their atmospheres through direct imaging πŸͺ He/Him πŸ”­ Previously in Amsterdam & Exeter.

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@bensutlieff.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:20 PM

I was invited to write a short article for the @leverhulme.ac.uk newsletter out this month, and excitingly it was chosen to feature on the cover! Read about our work on exoplanet atmospheres and why clouds are kind of great, actually #WorldSpaceWeek πŸͺπŸ”­

@leverhulme.ac.ukSep 15, 2026, 10:01 AMReposted by @bensutlieff.bsky.social

The Trust’s latest Newsletter is out now! Read about women and screen culture in Central Asia, the origin and extinction of mammoths, the invisible currency of cobalt and much more: leverhulme.ac.uk/newsletter

Space art featuring a large striped red planet, two small icy blue moons and a swirling galaxy framed top and bottom by layered red clouds.
@bensutlieff.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 3:56 PM

Absolutely fantastic show, and nice to meet you all in the pub the following day!

@whereisyvette.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:53 PMReposted by @bensutlieff.bsky.social

If @science.org is covering it, I guess I should share something here- we have for the first time definitively detected radio emission from a planet around another star! πŸ”­πŸ§ͺ🎒

What does this mean? Details in thread! (But TL;DR- still not aliens) 🧡

www.sciencenews.org/article/exop...

@bensutlieff.bsky.socialJul 15, 2026, 12:59 PM

With the press release out, I'm delighted to share our work reporting the discovery of a 3rd planet in the beta Pictoris system! Say hello to beta Pic d - a gas giant with 2.4 times the mass of Jupiter that takes 91 years to orbit its host star, far longer than the 2 known planets in the system πŸͺπŸ”­

EESO@eso.orgJul 15, 2026, 12:11 PM

Ten years of hide-and-seek! 🫣 Astronomers used our VLT to find a new #exoplanet orbiting the famous star Beta Pictoris β€” hiding in archival ESO observations spanning over a decade! And it's shyer than any exoplanet we've imaged before. πŸ”­ πŸ§ͺ 1/3 πŸ“· ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al.

Image of a star system. The central star is hidden behind a coronagraph, marked by a white star symbol at the centre. A bright companion appears to the left, while a much fainter companion, indicated by a white arrow, is visible to the right against a reddish-orange background.
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