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- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comInterested in learning about the Stawell Underground Physics Lab and the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment? @spaceaustralia.com is a great place to start. Thank you @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @astrokatie.com for your interest & engagement in the project! www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 🧪
- One of Australia’s most ambitious physics experiments that will search for Dark Matter is shaping up below regional Victoria. @astrokatie.com & @rami.spaceaustralia.com visited the site to see the project taking shape. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... #SpaceAustralia 📸 F. Morrison/SUPL 🔭
- After nearly a decade of work, scientists, engineers and researchers from @darkmatteraus.bsky.social @ozgrav.bsky.social and the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) expect to begin first data-taking this year -- a major milestone that could reshape our understanding of the Universe.
- Huge thanks to the OzGrav, ARC-DMPP and SUPL teams who supported and facilitated this visit in 2025. #SpaceAustralia
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: Checking out the God of Chaos — Apep — using JWST and the VLT. This unique triple stellar system is wild! Some nice work on one of the papers here led by fellow Macquarie University student Ryan White! 🔭
- Two new papers have used data from JWST and ESO's VLT to help uncover new details of the chaos amongst the stars: Apep @rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a... #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: An extremely rare glitch event occurred on a millisecond pulsar. This nice paper is by fellow PhD'er Bhavnesh Bhat from the Uni. of Manchester - I was very excited to write this one up! 🔭
- For only the third time ever, a glitch event has been observed on a millisecond #pulsar. @rami.spaceaustralia.com chats with lead author and PhD candidate Bhavnesh Bhat about the significance of this important, yet rare, event. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/new-gli... #SpaceAustralia 📸 NASA SVS
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: I was extremely excited and so very happy to have met, and interviewed the person who discovered pulsars this year - Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. I think that will be a huge career highlight for me! 🔭
- One of astronomy's most inspiring figures, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was in Sydney this week. @cosmicrami.com sat down for an interview with her, discussing the impact of her discovery and community advocacy legacy. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: My very first paper of my PhD! This was four years in the making, and for the first time, we had direct evidence of the origin of this event as a result of the disturbance in the millisecond pulsar PSR J1713+0747 magnetosphere. Super proud of this one! 🔭
- "Millisecond pulsars, whilst remarkably stable, may not be the perfect timekeepers we once thought they were" New research by @cosmicrami.com outlines how a pulsar throwing a tantrum could impact precision timing experiments. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls... #SpaceAustralia 📸 NASA SVS 🔭🧪
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: This story had me all fired up earlier this year) - the unintended broadband emissions from constellation satellites (like Starlink) have been creating radio frequency interference with radio telescopes and radio astronomy. Actually ... still fired up! 🔭
- An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: Earlier this year, astronomers caught the radio signal from ASKAP J1832-0911 - a Long-Period Transient (which are all the buzz in #RadioAstronomy atm). But for the first time, coincident X-ray emissions were also observed with Chandra for this object. 🔭
- A multiwavelength glimpse at a space oddity! Astronomers from @icrar.bsky.social have led a global team to reveal new insights into the growing population of Long-Period Transients. Check out the article from @cosmicrami.com here: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aska... #SpaceAustralia 📸 ICRAR
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comStories from #SpaceAustralia in 2025: This was really cool - and it was from the team at Google (with a few science friends) that did this to help improve coverage for the Android community). Smartphones and GPS signals can improve tracking of our ionosphere and solar storms!
- Researchers have found a way to measure Earth's dynamic ionosphere using smartphones, with GPS signals offering insights into this turbulent region of our atmosphere. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... by @cosmicrami.com 📸 Kast, Smith, Google Research Software Engineers #SpaceAustralia
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAlmost forgot! 28 November = special day! It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars! We've only known about them for <60 years. Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇 www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... 🔭 #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comA terrific writeup from @rami.spaceaustralia.com on our recent Apep results and press release! Would highly recommend giving it a read :)
- Two new papers have used data from JWST and ESO's VLT to help uncover new details of the chaos amongst the stars: Apep @rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a... #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- Two new papers have used data from JWST and ESO's VLT to help uncover new details of the chaos amongst the stars: Apep @rami.spaceaustralia.com spoke with one of the paper's lead authors @astroryan.bsky.social about this incredible system. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-a... #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- For only the third time ever, a glitch event has been observed on a millisecond #pulsar. @rami.spaceaustralia.com chats with lead author and PhD candidate Bhavnesh Bhat about the significance of this important, yet rare, event. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/new-gli... #SpaceAustralia 📸 NASA SVS
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comWhat an honour it was to conduct this interview. An experience, nay, a highlight that I will never forget! Sitting down, one-on-one with Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. We spoke about pulsars, history, and ongoing equity in academia. I hope you enjoy it as much as I will cherish it. 🔭🧪📡
- One of astronomy's most inspiring figures, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was in Sydney this week. @cosmicrami.com sat down for an interview with her, discussing the impact of her discovery and community advocacy legacy. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comProfessor Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a most amazing and inspiring woman. And she has such great stories to tell! "Her story is not just about pulsars, it's about resilience in the face of bias, of generosity in sharing recognition, and of a vision to build a more inclusive scientific community." 🔭📡
- One of astronomy's most inspiring figures, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was in Sydney this week. @cosmicrami.com sat down for an interview with her, discussing the impact of her discovery and community advocacy legacy. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge
- One of astronomy's most inspiring figures, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was in Sydney this week. @cosmicrami.com sat down for an interview with her, discussing the impact of her discovery and community advocacy legacy. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/inte... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Uni. of Cambridge
- "Millisecond pulsars, whilst remarkably stable, may not be the perfect timekeepers we once thought they were" New research by @cosmicrami.com outlines how a pulsar throwing a tantrum could impact precision timing experiments. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls... #SpaceAustralia 📸 NASA SVS 🔭🧪
- The results of a four-year analysis on PSR J1713+0747 have indicated that the millisecond pulsar underwent a significant profile change event, whose origin can be traced to the magnetosphere of the star - with massive disruptions to the polarisation. #SpaceAustralia 📸 @cosmicrami.com 🔭🧪📡
- But is PSR J1713+0747 the only millisecond pulsar with profile variability? And what are the implications of this for high-precision timing experiments, such as searching for gravitational waves? Read @cosmicrami.com article: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/puls... #SpaceAustralia 📸 D. Champion 🔭🧪
- And a big thank you to @astrokatie.com for a mammoth effort across so many events! Thank you to our excellent partners too: @sydneyideas.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @ozgrav.bsky.social @darkmatteraus.bsky.social @queersinscience.bsky.social @wheelercentre.bsky.social, Macquarie Uni, Swinburne Uni!
- I had a wonderful time in Australia! Massive thanks to Chris Stewart and the @sydney.edu.au International Science School for bringing me over and to @cosmicrami.com and @spaceaustralia.com for arranging all my other talks and events! 🙏🏼
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comI had a wonderful time in Australia! Massive thanks to Chris Stewart and the @sydney.edu.au International Science School for bringing me over and to @cosmicrami.com and @spaceaustralia.com for arranging all my other talks and events! 🙏🏼
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAnd also for #Melbourne folks — there is also tickets available for this event on Wednesday evening!
- Fancy some science and art mixed together in storytelling? Then you are def. going to want to check out the 'Creating the Universe' event with @astrokatie.com and @aliciasometimes.bsky.social at the @wheelercentre.bsky.social This is at about 75% capacity, so be sure to get tickets ($) soon!
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comWe joined @astrokatie.com of @perimeterinstitute.ca and @spaceaustralia.com's Rami Mandow at the Stawell Underground Physics Lab today. Dr Mack was involved with the lab when it was no more than a big idea. Now, it is a state-of-the-art facility soon to host the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment.🧪
- We're excited for tonight's @sydneyideas.bsky.social talk with @astrokatie.com (and hosted by @taramurphy.bsky.social) at Sydney Uni! The event has sold out! Folks in #Melbourne - events next week are also selling fast, so get tickets. More info: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/dr-kati... 🧵 👇
- First up for #Melbourne, we have our Science Communication panel, hosted by @ozgrav.bsky.social and at Swinburne Uni. featuring @astrokatie.com, Dr Kirsten Banks, Dr Sara Webb, and @cosmicrami.com. Moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy. Grab your FREE tickets here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/science-co...
- Then, later on that evening in #Melbourne will be @astrokatie.com at Swinburne University / @ozgrav.bsky.social for a public lecture on 'The End of Everything' This is SELLING FAST, so grab your tickets ($) from here not to miss out: www.swinburne.edu.au/events/2025/...
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View full threadAnd lastly, for #Melbourne, come along to a special @queersinscience.bsky.social event at The Oxford Scholar to hear from our queer scientists across different fields, as well as @astrokatie.com This is at around 80% capacity already, so get in quick! (FREE) queersinscience.org.au/event/queer-...
- Folks in #Sydney, interested in #ScienceCommunication and near Macquarie Uni. - there's a fun SciComm panel tomorrow at lunch feat. @astrokatie.com, @cosmicrami.com, Dr Paige Erpf & Prof. Ronika Power discussing why translating science matters. [Free event] mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAnd on the 17th July, we also have this #QueersInScience event in #Melbourne as well, that you should come along to on evening of 17 July. Also free and there will be hot snacks!
- And last but not least, come along to a special @queersinscience.bsky.social event, where @astrokatie.com and four other queer scientists will be sharing about their work and how their queerness has shaped their professional journey in STEM. queersinscience.org.au/event/queer-... #Melbourne 6/6
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAussie folks! If you're in #Melbourne on afternoon of 15 July, come along to this FREE event on #ScienceCommunication! I'll be joining this powerhouse panel of science communicators!
- Then we're off to #Melbourne! Come along to a fun discussion on #ScienceCommunication with a panel featuring @astrokatie.com, @cosmicrami.com, Dr Kirsten Banks, Dr Sara Webb and moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy. Hosted by @ozgrav.bsky.social at Swinburne Uni. www.ozgrav.org/event/scienc... 3/6
- Look who's coming to #Sydney & #Melbourne! We're thrilled to be working with Australian institutions to host @astrokatie.com at events in both cities in July 2025. All event dates, times and tickets here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/dr-kati... Individual events listed in thread below 🧵👇 1/6
- First in line in #Sydney: Come see @astrokatie.com public lecture on 'The End of Everything', hosted by @taramurphy.bsky.social at @sydney.edu.au 300+ people have already registered for this! There's also a book signing opportunity at this event. www.sydney.edu.au/engage/event... 2/6
- Then we're off to #Melbourne! Come along to a fun discussion on #ScienceCommunication with a panel featuring @astrokatie.com, @cosmicrami.com, Dr Kirsten Banks, Dr Sara Webb and moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy. Hosted by @ozgrav.bsky.social at Swinburne Uni. www.ozgrav.org/event/scienc... 3/6
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View full threadAnd last but not least, come along to a special @queersinscience.bsky.social event, where @astrokatie.com and four other queer scientists will be sharing about their work and how their queerness has shaped their professional journey in STEM. queersinscience.org.au/event/queer-... #Melbourne 6/6
- An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia
- Radio frequency interference from Starlink not only spans the narrowband intended emissions but also broadband unintended emissions, coming from propulsion and avionics. This RFI is unregulated and affects key science goals. Starlink can appear in ~30% of all sky images. 📸 Grigg et al. 2025 📡🔭
- This new study, from Dylan Grigg at Curtin University, is not the first to study the impacts of Starlink on #RadioAstronomy, but is the largest of its kind and quantifies how this type of radio frequency interference - that comes from above - will impact the mega-science SKA project. 📸 DISR 📡🔭
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comTiny beginnings. Catastrophic endings. One unforgettable night. Public Lecture featuring Dr Katie Mack @astrokatie.com 📅 Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2025 ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM 📍 Venue: AMDC301, Swinburne University 🎟️ Tickets: $15 Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-lec... @spaceaustralia.com
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comEOIs are open for the CSIRO Industry PhD Program (iPhD)! iPhD is a four-year research training program, focusing on applied research that benefits industry by solving real-world challenges. See the available ANU-CSIRO science and medical research projects here: science.anu.edu.au/study/resear...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comFascinante découverte d'une "source transitoire à période longue" qui émet à la fois des impulsions radio et des rayons X, de manière parfaitement coordonnées. Leur nature fait encore débat : étoile à neutron hypermagnétisée ou naine blanche dans un système binaire. Plus d'informations ci-dessous👇
- A multiwavelength glimpse at a space oddity! Astronomers from @icrar.bsky.social have led a global team to reveal new insights into the growing population of Long-Period Transients. Check out the article from @cosmicrami.com here: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aska... #SpaceAustralia 📸 ICRAR
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comThis is such a neat result ... seeing both X-rays and radio waves in phase tells us the emission processes might be linked. Throw in some polarization, and you got a magnetic field. Slowly, the clues are starting to be uncovered. New type of object? New physics? Time will tell!
- What makes ASKAP J1832-0911 stand out from the rest of the Long-Period Transients is that, for the first time, coincident X-ray emission, along with radio emissions, have also been detected from such an object, thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 📸 Ziteng (Andy) Wang / @icrar.bsky.social
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comRADIO + X-RAYS FROM THIS NEW LONG-PERIOD TRANSIENT! But .... we still don't know what they are! A true space mystery is brewing!
- A multiwavelength glimpse at a space oddity! Astronomers from @icrar.bsky.social have led a global team to reveal new insights into the growing population of Long-Period Transients. Check out the article from @cosmicrami.com here: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aska... #SpaceAustralia 📸 ICRAR
- A multiwavelength glimpse at a space oddity! Astronomers from @icrar.bsky.social have led a global team to reveal new insights into the growing population of Long-Period Transients. Check out the article from @cosmicrami.com here: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aska... #SpaceAustralia 📸 ICRAR
- What makes ASKAP J1832-0911 stand out from the rest of the Long-Period Transients is that, for the first time, coincident X-ray emission, along with radio emissions, have also been detected from such an object, thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 📸 Ziteng (Andy) Wang / @icrar.bsky.social
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comIn fact, here's the first! If you're in #Sydney on 10 July, come @astrokatie.com's big Sydney Ideas talk at @sydney.edu.au on the 'End of Everything', hosted by @taramurphy.bsky.social This is a free event but essential to get registrations. Don't miss out + watch this space for more! 3/3 🔭
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comThis includes working with all these excellent partners: - Intl. Science School - @spaceaustralia.com - @sydney.edu.au - @ozgrav.bsky.social - ARC CoE Dark Matter - Swinburne Uni. - Wheeler Centre - @queersinscience.bsky.social Keep an eye out for event pages and ticket links! 2/3 🔭
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comYo, #Sydney and #Melbourne! Some exciting news! Over last few months have been planning an excellent #SciComm event for our cities. We're hosting @astrokatie.com here in Oz for two weeks to talk about 'The End of Everything!' and more fun science. Got a fantastic program planned for you! 1/3 🔭
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comThe ionosphere is cool. But you know what is cooler? Well, we can use smartphones to measure the temporal and spatial variations in our ionosphere caused by solar activity. Made a little vid for @spaceaustralia.com Read the article here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... #SpaceAustralia 🔭☄️
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comUnos investigadores han encontrado un método para investigar la ionosfera terrestre mediante la señal GPS de nuestros móviles
- Researchers have found a way to measure Earth's dynamic ionosphere using smartphones, with GPS signals offering insights into this turbulent region of our atmosphere. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... by @cosmicrami.com 📸 Kast, Smith, Google Research Software Engineers #SpaceAustralia
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- Researchers have found a way to measure Earth's dynamic ionosphere using smartphones, with GPS signals offering insights into this turbulent region of our atmosphere. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... by @cosmicrami.com 📸 Kast, Smith, Google Research Software Engineers #SpaceAustralia
- Researchers have found a way to measure Earth's dynamic ionosphere using smartphones, with GPS signals offering insights into this turbulent region of our atmosphere. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm... by @cosmicrami.com 📸 Kast, Smith, Google Research Software Engineers #SpaceAustralia
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comThis has been years in the making, and its good to see this come to the pointy end now. @spaceaustralia.com has covered Gilmour heaps! But I'll also stress we should be thinking about our soverign launch strategy, implications with defence/civilian/science. www.spaceaustralia.com/search?searc...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAustralia is gearing up for our first Aussie-designed and built orbital-class vehicle to be launched from Abbott Point (QLD) around March this year. @planet4589.bsky.social - we've got another port opening up soon to catalogue! www.innovationaus.com/green-is-for...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.com🌌 Ever wondered how tiny particles like neutrinos & neutron stars shape the universe? Join us on 21 Feb at 5:30 pm for Tiny yet impactful clues to unlocking cosmic mysteries with PhD students Pratyasha & Nimas. Free event! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tiny-yet-i... 🔭 #SpaceScience #OzGrav
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comFirst day back at work, time for a flashback... Check out this video for the School of Physics (@sydneyuni.bsky.social) from 1977, the year I was born...! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg61... "They often use large computers to check their theories..." ⚛️ #physics #astronomy ⚛️
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comwhile doing research for an upcoming piece i found this fun little explainer article i wrote a couple years back for @spaceaustralia.com 📡🔭🧪 spaceaustralia.com/news/science...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comA nice article on Europa Clipper and its exploration context! @helen-e-mc.bsky.social
- Europa Clipper is heading to the Jovian system. A small, icy moon there offers the possibility of it being habitable. @helen-e-mc.bsky.social examines the path that led to the start of this exciting mission. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/europa-... 📸 New Horizons/NASA/JHUAPL/SRI #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- What could these objects be? Astronomers have started looking at other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to try and learn more about the 'Long-Period Transients'. Article now updated to also feature quotes from Dr. Ziteng Wang (+ @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social ) @icrar.bsky.social
- An emerging class of objects in #RadioAstronomy, mostly discovered in the last few years, still can't be explained. Two new multi-wavelength studies might have answers. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mult... by @cosmicrami.com #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 📸 @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social /MWA/Curtin/ICRAR
- An emerging class of objects in #RadioAstronomy, mostly discovered in the last few years, still can't be explained. Two new multi-wavelength studies might have answers. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mult... by @cosmicrami.com #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 📸 @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social /MWA/Curtin/ICRAR
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comICYMI here's the video version of our podcast with @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social about the science of pulsar timing arrays and gravitational wave astronomy 📡🧪🌊🔭⚛️ youtu.be/s-gmfKHhucg?...
- MeerKAT's excellent sensitivity gives us the most detailed map of the GWB - and an interesting feature has appeared! @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social from @monashastro.bsky.social / @ozgrav.bsky.social discusses these findings. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mapp... 📸 R. Nathan #SpaceAustralia
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comWhoa
- MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array team has announced evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB)! @cosmicrami.com had a chat with lead author @astromattmiles.bsky.social from @ozgrav.bsky.social www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta... 📸 C. Knox/Swinburne/OzGrav/SARAO #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 1/3
- MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array team has announced evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB)! @cosmicrami.com had a chat with lead author @astromattmiles.bsky.social from @ozgrav.bsky.social www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta... 📸 C. Knox/Swinburne/OzGrav/SARAO #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 1/3
- MeerKAT's excellent sensitivity gives us the most detailed map of the GWB - and an interesting feature has appeared! @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social from @monashastro.bsky.social / @ozgrav.bsky.social discusses these findings. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mapp... 📸 R. Nathan #SpaceAustralia
- The three papers published have been led (or co-led) by early career researchers from Australia, working as part of international teams. These exciting new findings support the June 2023 results from other pulsar timing array campaigns which announced similar evidence of the GWB. 3/3
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comBy cosmic coincidence, there's a system of two neutron stars that are both pulsars and just by chance, they both shine in Earth's direction. It's the ONLY one of these systems we know about so far. When the beam of one goes through the magnetic field of the other, we can study its magnetosphere! 🔭
- 1 in 100 billion! The double pulsar system, where both pulsar beams point at us, offers astronomers a unique chance to study extreme astrophysics. @cosmicrami.com chatted with @astromelow.bsky.social on his new paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unve... #SpaceAustralia 🔭📡🧪 📸M. Kramer/MPIfR
- 1 in 100 billion! The double pulsar system, where both pulsar beams point at us, offers astronomers a unique chance to study extreme astrophysics. @cosmicrami.com chatted with @astromelow.bsky.social on his new paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unve... #SpaceAustralia 🔭📡🧪 📸M. Kramer/MPIfR
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAnother favourite of mine is this piece I wrote for @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social on evidence for past #galactic mergers: spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comHello BSky 👋, I’ve come back. Have started to write a bit more too - latest piece here 😎
- Europa Clipper is heading to the Jovian system. A small, icy moon there offers the possibility of it being habitable. @helen-e-mc.bsky.social examines the path that led to the start of this exciting mission. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/europa-... 📸 New Horizons/NASA/JHUAPL/SRI #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comooooooh boy. This is big news that has thrown a spanner in the works for the Australian Space Industry. The Aust. Govt. has cancelled a $3B contract with Lockheed Martin on the JP1902 sovereign SatCom project. @rocketwoman.bsky.social covered it extensively for @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social here 👇
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comEarly-career astronomers! Looking for a postdoc, want to come to New Zealand? The Elaine P. Snowden Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open. Applicants welcomed from any area of astronomy 🔭🧪🛰️🇳🇿
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comAlmost forgot! Oct 31 is the anniversary of Murriyang starting operations in 1961! 63 years of operation, and it’s still giving us solid science/discoveries. Iconic Aussie astronomy infrastructure. Wrote some words on this a few years back: www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/fe... 📸 CSIRO 🔭📡
- Europa Clipper is heading to the Jovian system. A small, icy moon there offers the possibility of it being habitable. @helen-e-mc.bsky.social examines the path that led to the start of this exciting mission. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/europa-... 📸 New Horizons/NASA/JHUAPL/SRI #SpaceAustralia 🔭
- Spectacular APOD today of the aurora over NZ, captured by Tristian McDonald from Lindis Pass on the South Island. 🔭 It even features the central region of our Milky Way Galaxy and the satellite Magellanic Clouds in the background. 📸 @apod.shinyakato.dev | apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24101...
- Reposted by SpaceAustralia.comGood chance that a naked-eye comet will be visible next week -- you need a clear view of the western sky... www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwis-hav...
