Steve Fossey

Stephen John Fossey is a British astronomer working at UCL Observatory, which is part of University College London (UCL). He discovered the nearby supernova SN 2014J and is one of the three editors of The Observatory magazine.

Education
Fossey studied at University College London (UCL), receiving his Bachelor of Science with Honours in 1983. This was followed in 1990 by a PhD in Astronomy (also at UCL). Fossey became a member of staff at ULO (University of London Observatory), which was later renamed UCL Observatory.

Research and publications
Fossey's research interests are in the interstellar medium, exoplanets and time-domain astronomy. He has authored two dozen refereed scientific papers on these topics. His first scientific publication was a single-author letter in Nature.

Along with Ingo Waldmann and David Kipping, Fossey discovered in 2009 that the exoplanet HD 80606b (previously known from radial velocity) transits its host star. In January 2014, Fossey discovered supernova SN 2014J, the closest supernova for several decades.

Fossey is an editor of The Observatory magazine.