Huge thanks to Carl Knox, @ozgrav.bsky.social and @astrokirsten.bsky.social for helping us drop this discovery with a bang!

TLDR: Astronomers find the Rosetta Stone to decipher weird radio bursts from outer space. I feel pretty lucky to have made this discovery but even luckier to have such an awesome group of collaborators and mentors to help make it a high-impact result. ☄️🔭🧪⚛️ 📸 Carl Knox (@ozgrav.bsky.social)

These systems contain extreme conditions like powerful magnetic fields thousands of times stronger than anything humans can create. By learning how LPTs make their radio light, we can use them as remote laboratories to study physics in a regime that we could not recreate here on Earth.

My awesome friend @funfactscience.com just got published in Nature! 💫

Our discovery marks the first time we’ve confirmed an LPT to be an accreting white dwarf binary. This is a pair of stars (one of them a white dwarf) spiralling around each other so closely that the gravity of the white dwarf can pull (or accrete) material from its less massive companion.

Seeing a signal in different kinds of light is like having a text written in several forms of writing – it makes it easier to decipher.

Science is a team sport but it’s also a community. Discoveries come from the efforts of many and build on foundations laid by our predecessors. The mystery of this strange object could not have been solved without the knowledge and efforts of my co-authors. theconversation.com/mysterious-s...

I’m thrilled to share that my latest research paper has just been published in Nature Astronomy! It’s been nearly a year since I first submitted the manuscript to Nature and a little over three years since I began working on this project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natastron.nature.com

if anybody needs me, i'll just be staring at this for the next few hours 🤩

TLDR: Astronomers find the Rosetta Stone to decipher weird radio bursts from outer space. I feel pretty lucky to have made this discovery but even luckier to have such an awesome group of collaborators and mentors to help make it a high-impact result. ☄️🔭🧪⚛️ 📸 Carl Knox (@ozgrav.bsky.social)

New LPT who dis?

And here's a short video explanation: www.youtube.com/shorts/0x6Ay...

Here is the full scientific article in @natastron.nature.com: "Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary" www.nature.com/articles/s41... #RadioAstronomy 🔭 ☄️

Hot off the press! A new #RadioAstronomy discovery by @sydney.edu.au PhD student Kovi Rose (@funfactscience.com) A new long period radio transient identified as a white dwarf binary system (with great graphics from @ozgrav.bsky.social's Carl Knox) theconversation.com/mysterious-s... ☄️ 🔭

Very cool new science! 🔭📡 @funfactscience.com led a team on his new paper, outlining the discovery of a white dwarf binary where the magnetic fields are doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things! This could now explain some of the mysterious Long-Period Transient phenomenon we've been seeing!

Huge thanks to Carl Knox, @ozgrav.bsky.social and @astrokirsten.bsky.social for helping us drop this discovery with a bang!

Could this 'Rosetta Stone' white dwarf binary solve the mystery of Long-Period Transients? @rami.spaceaustralia.com chatted with lead author @funfactscience.com about this exciting discovery. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/new-... #SpaceAustralia 📸 C. Knox & J.P. Pritchard 🔭 #RadioAstronomy

I’m thrilled to share that my latest research paper has just been published in Nature Astronomy! It’s been nearly a year since I first submitted the manuscript to Nature and a little over three years since I began working on this project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natastron.nature.com

Taken with our VLT over a period of four years, these images show the rotating disc of gas & dust around the young star AB Aurigae. Features like “twists” signal the places where #exoplanets could be forming 🪐 More: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/ 🔭 🧪 📹 ESO/A. Boccaletti et al.

Ever wanted to be my WORK BESTIE? ScienceAlert is hiring for a new MANAGING EDITOR. Details below! 👇 Feel free to DM me if you have any questions 😄 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

I've also gotta say how thrilled @scienceactually.bsky.social was to be able to put a real astronaut, in a real EVA suit on the duck! (Benjamin and I probably need to decide on a name our iconic duck... any suggestions?)

We finally managed to snag an astronaut and the resulting episode is out of this world! Thanks to all who submitted questions, we tried our best to ask them all. Take a listen below to hear about Rex's experience as a space shuttle astronaut open.spotify.com/episode/3804...

This is awesome Stuart!

big announcement coming next week!

Congratulations to OzGrav’s Dr Iris de Ruiter on being awarded a prestigious 2026 Gruber Foundation Fellowship in collaboration with the International Astronomical Union. Read more: www.ozgrav.org/awards/ozgra...

Congratulations to @ozgrav.bsky.social and @sydney.edu.au researcher Iris de Ruiter who has been awarded an IAU Gruber Foundation Fellowship for her work in #radioastronomy. www.iau.org/IAU/News/Ann... 🔭 ☄️

big announcement coming next week!

New research from @monashastro.bsky.social @ozgrav.bsky.social has shown that some stars live young, burn bright, then just blow themselves up! ⭐💥 Article and graphics by @astronerdika.bsky.social www.spaceaustralia.com/news/black-h... 📸 S. Galaudage #SpaceAustralia

NSF NRAO Announces 2026 Jansky Fellows Congratulations to Jacob Turner, Ryan Boyden, and Alexander (Sasha) Plavin, 2026 Jansky Fellows! https://public.nrao.edu/news/2026-jansky-fellows/

I've got some big science news coming soon and I'm very excited to share it with you all! ⚛️🔭🧪📡

I've got some big science news coming soon and I'm very excited to share it with you all! ⚛️🔭🧪📡

if you could ask an astronaut any question, what would it be? (we've got one coming on the show soon 🤫)

Amazing news @interplanetary.bsky.social !!! Congratulations 🎉

This is awesome Stuart!

seasons greetings 🤓

if you could ask an astronaut any question, what would it be? (we've got one coming on the show soon 🤫)

I have a big new research paper on an epidemic problem we don’t discuss enough in astrobiology. Currently in review but I couldn’t wait to share so here is the video, paper should land on the arXiv next few days. youtu.be/u3HLrDkMRXY

OzGrav Director Professor Matthew Bailes has officially launched Swinburne’s Virtual Universe ✨ www.ozgrav.org/news/ozgrav-...

"your outie has a vivid, non-goblin life"

Fund NASA science or we’re demoting it again to comet.

It's a cosmic zoo of radio transients out there! 📡🔭

as I approach the PhD finish line this perfectly encapsulates my family 🧪⚛️🔭 credit: @tomgauld.bsky.social

One of Ethan's most important, albeit somewhat depressing, articles...

Homunculus Nebula expansion - 2008-2026. A sequence of three images, comparing my backyard C14 image with the two HST images (2008 and 2019). The nebula expands from 17" to 21" in diameter and details such as the hole in the 'near' bubble end and jet-like equatorial blasts consistently grow outwards

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

as I approach the PhD finish line this perfectly encapsulates my family 🧪⚛️🔭 credit: @tomgauld.bsky.social

It's a cosmic zoo of radio transients out there! 📡🔭

Excited to announce the first data release from our ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients survey is now available! doi.org/10.1017/pasa... This is a database of 6.4 million measurements of 0.5 million radio sources in our survey footprint. (By @ozgrav.bsky.social Iris de Ruiter) #RadioAstronomy

🌻🌼My study on pollination in the face of climate change is now out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 🐝We found that range shifting plants lose their pollinators, but might compensate for the loss by self pollinating. 🔗paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ClimateChange #RangeShifts