📣 For the first time ever, scientists have confirmed seeing a giant explosion on a star other than our own! Our XMM-Newton observatory and the LOFAR telescope contributed to making this long sought-after discovery 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☄️ ☀️ 1/

Thrilled to announce our new Springer Nature paper is now live! We’ve tuned into a massive stellar storm on the radio! 🌟📡

Next #SETILive: Pulsing White Dwarf! TODAY, 28 August, 11:00 am PDT Join us for a livestream with Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot on one of the universe’s most puzzling new discoveries: a white dwarf that emits highly polarized radio pulses in a patterned rhythm. 🧪 👩‍🔬 WATCH LIVE: buff.ly/Bz18EJY

At CSIRO today to talk all about wide-field radio monitors. Exciting times ahead. Thanks Josh Pritchard for organising. Great opening talk by Ron Ekers on the history and future of all-sky monitors

Another great result by @astrosanne.bsky.social. She has found an new long-period transient and found it contains another white dwarf - which is doing a weird dance in the sky with another star. Hear about it all here at this snazzy video: www.youtube.com/shorts/i8Re1...

An international research team led by @astrosanne.bsky.social at ASTRON, identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source: www.astron.nl/astronomers-...

New LPT alert! Our paper on the LOFAR discovery of J1634+44, a new long-period transient with a strange timing pattern and even stranger polarisation properties, was published today in A&A. Check it out here: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...

Delighted to announce that the next Bcool meeting take place from April 9-11th 2024 at ASTRON! The deadline for registration and abstract submission is March 8th. Details: indico.astron.nl/e/bcool2024

If you want to know everything about the radio properties of AU Mic (and stellar radio emission in general), check out Sanne's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071

What a great early Christmas present. The first thesis papers for Sanne Bloot and Timothy Yiu were accepted during #SALF!

The first paper of my PhD was accepted in A&A this week! We observed the young and active M dwarf AU Microscopii with the Australia Telescope Compact Array for over 250 hours and found a wide variety of radio bursts. It's up on the arXiv now! arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071

Enjoying the first ASTRON/JIVE Astrofest since COVID-19. Lots of awesome science and fantastic people!