Richard Parker

Richard Parker

Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Sheffield

Richard Parker is a computational astrophysicist whose research focuses on the birth environment of stars and their planetary systems. He currently holds a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin research fellowship at the University of Sheffield, and previously held research posts at Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Articles by: Richard Parker

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How massive stars steal planets

By Richard Parker published

Our new paper shows how massive stars in such stellar nurseries can steal exoplanets away from each other — and what the signs of such theft are.

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