Sara Webb

Sara Webb

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology

Sara Webb is an Astrophysics/ML postdoctoral researcher and science communicator based at Swinburne University. She spends her days solving data challenges with machine learning and coordinating student-led research projects to the International Space Station. In her PhD she was chasing the fastest bursts in the Universe, caused by the most energetic stellar events. This research took her in many amazing directions, from hunting gravitational wave counterparts to investigating the largest stellar flares.

Latest articles by Sara Webb

Two women hold up spongy white materials to the camera, one woman wears glasses and a pink blazer and the other has a gold hoop earring
We ate space mushrooms and survived to tell the tale

By Rebecca Allen, Sara Webb Published

They were gourmet, but not from any grocery store you can find on Earth.

International Space Station
A blob of white sits at the bottom of the screen with a floating cylinder above.
Elon Musk promises more risky launches after sixth Starship failure

By Sara Webb Published

Is this setting a new precedent for the future of spaceflight?

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Private Spaceflight
Bright lilac star at the center, surrounded by rusty orange clouds of dust in a large ring shape.
A cosmic time machine: How the James Webb Space Telescope lets us see the first galaxies in the universe

By Sara Webb Published

It has been an exciting week with the release of breathtaking photos of our universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

James Webb Space Telescope
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the oldest galaxies it can observe.
Hunting galaxies far far away: Here's how anyone can explore the universe

By Sara Webb Published

Aladin Lite is one of the greatest online tools available to look at our universe through the eyes of many different telescopes.

Galaxies
This photo is the first color view of Mars from China's Zhurong rover, looking toward its rear, from its landing spot on a plain in Utopia Planitia following a May 14, 2021 landing. This image was released May 19.
On its first try, China's Zhurong rover hit a Mars milestone that took NASA decades

By Sara Webb, Rebecca Allen Published

China's Zhurong rover landed safely on Mars on May 15, making China only the third country to successfully land a rover on the red planet.

Mars Rovers