Conor Feehly

Conor Feehly

Contributing Writer

Conor Feehly is a New Zealand-based science writer. He has earned a master's in science communication from the University of Otago, Dunedin. His writing has appeared in Cosmos Magazine, Discover Magazine and ScienceAlert. His writing largely covers topics relating to neuroscience and psychology, although he also enjoys writing about a number of scientific subjects ranging from astrophysics to archaeology. 

Latest articles by Conor Feehly

Annotated telescope image shows a tapestry of colors in shades of blue, purple, red, yellow, and white. Overlaid on the image are three sets of labels. In the upper right corner is the name of the object, Center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and the name of the telescopes used to capture the image: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope. At the center is a label that points to the smaller, amorphous region in white that reads, Sagittarius A-star.

James Webb Space Telescope could soon solve mysteries of the Milky Way's heart

By Conor Feehly published

To understand how galaxies evolve, astronomers want to use JWST to peer into the Milky Way's core.

James Webb Space Telescope
An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a behemoth dubbed Sagittarius A*, revealed by the Event Horizon Telescope on May 12, 2022.

Swirling gas helps scientists nail down Milky Way's supermassive black hole mass

By Conor Feehly published

An independent mass measurement of Sagittarius A* suggests we have been right all along about how utterly massive this black hole is.

Black Holes
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