Lucas Brown, graduate student at Tufts University, has updated the iconic pulsar map originally seen on the Voyager golden record to include the pulsars from NANOGrav's data sets. Check out this great way to visualize our data! You can see how much the array has grown over the years 🔭🧪

NANOGrav congratulates the LISA Consortium on ESA’s approval, advancing the space-based LISA gravitational wave observatory. We look forward to exploring the gravitational universe alongside LVK Consortium and LISA 🔭

We are pleased to announce that Ross Jennings is the "Hero of NANOGrav" for the month of January! 🔭 nanograv.org/news/hero-na...

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Today at #AAS243 🔭

#AAS243 Astrobiter @astrolamb.bsky.social will be presenting his research at 10am today! He'll be talking about distinguishing between an astrophysical and cosmological origin to the gravitational wave background seen by @nanograv.bsky.social and other pulsar timing arrays!

Day 1 #AAS243 summaries are up! If you missed anything yesterday or are following along from afar, we’ve got you covered 👍🏻⭐️ astrobites.org/2024/01/09/a...

Lots of NANOGrav talks and posters tomorrow, including a Special Session in room 226 starting at 2PM. We hope to see you there! #AAS243 🔭🧪

Have you stopped by the new Gravitational Wave booth at #AAS243 yet? Come say hi to NANOGrav, LIGO, and LISA! #AAS243 🔭

Good morning AAS! Steve Taylor is starting off the day with the Kavli Plenary 🔭

Don’t miss the Kavli Planetary Lecture at AAS243 by NANOGrav chair Dr. Stephen Taylor. There are also many other NANOGrav talks tomorrow and all week long 🔭

Great article from @astrobites.bsky.social 🔭 astrobites.org/2024/01/07/m...

NANOGrav talks tomorrow 🔭AAS243

With support from the AAS, Astronomy on Tap will host what is likely to be their biggest event *ever* during #AAS243 in New Orleans. Tuesday night, Jan 9, at an incredible venue: Republic NOLA, directly across from the convention center: aot.eventbrite.com

Here’s a gift link to my article: wapo.st/3NALhdH

Excellent op-ed from Dr. Chiara Mingarelli:

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Need a gift for the pulsar astronomer In your life? We recommend www.thegamecrafter.com/games/nanogr...

The new High Energy Astrophysics Division Newsletter is out! See page 15: head.aas.org/sites/head.a...

Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar. She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. 🔭 🧪 👩‍🔬

The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered OTD in 1967.🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

We are pleased to announce that Joe Simon is our NANOGrav Hero for the month of November!

I tried my hand at some large scale outreach. It was frankly a bit unnerving 🤪 But thanks to the folks at WIRED is was really fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65m...

Emmanuel Fonseca at SACNAS: on a panel and during the GWA special session. We also had people at the shared Gravitational Wave Astronomy booth!

Kicking off the Fall meeting with a Speed Networking session

Save the date! 📅 Dr. Stephen Taylor from NANOGrav will headline the 243rd AAS Meeting in New Orleans on Jan 8, 2024, with the prestigious Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture. 🌌 aas.org/press/aas-na...

From William Lamb: Post-detection of a gravitational wave background, pulsar timing arrays could detect individual sources of gravitational waves, called Continuous Waves. Let’s find out what properties we expect them to have! 🔭 astrobites.org/2023/10/12/c...

Still have questions about gravitational waves? Check out this excellent new video that explains what they are and the different methods for detecting them (including our own!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHuk...

Scott Ransom doing his best Socrates impression during a Q&A at Texas Tech yesterday (photo credit Ben Owen)

Using a pulsar timing array, we look for correlated noise which might be consistent with the signal of a gravitational wave passing by Earth stretching and compressing space (on the scale of the GALAXY!) in a predictable way. 🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬📡

Now we're getting the 2min review of what a pulsar is, and how they make radio emissions at the Committee on Radio Frequency. Pulsars really are mind-boggling - something the size of a city, rotating at the speed of a blender! 🔭🧪👩🏻‍🔬

Pulsar timing arrays are just telescope sensors the scale of roughly a spiral arm in our Galaxy.... image is a still from a really awesome movie showing this for @nanograv.bsky.social which we just saw 🧪🔭👩🏻‍🔬

Yesterday, Natalia Lewandowska gave an invited talk at Ithaca College. The talk was titled "A new message from the gravitational wave universe".

Are you looking for a relatable scientist role model to bring accessible, cutting-edge astrophysics to your school/group? Please request a member of NANOGrav’s Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT) to visit and deliver our signature outreach presentation: test-nanograv.pantheonsite.io/resources/spot

Scientist? New to BlueSky? Trying to figure out what the hell a "feed" is and why hashtags aren't working the same as on Twitter? Check out this quick start guide by @steveharoz.com and me 👇

Congratulations to Aaron Johnson for being this month's Hero of NANOGrav! He always goes above and beyond!

I don’t normally cross post material from that other place, but this felt like it should be shared here. Sleep well, gentle giant. And thank you for changing human knowledge, forever. 🔭📡

Just been reminded that 6 August is the anniversary of the first detection of pulsar signals by Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967. Wrote about this discovery on @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social last year for the 55th anniversary: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-years-pulsar-science 🧪🔭

This months Hero of NANOGrav is Elizabeth Ferrera! #nanograv #heroofnanograv #sciencecollaboration

✨Check out Part II of the video featuring Tyler Cohen (NRAO), as he demonstrates how PTAs act as a telescope made of stars! ✨ 🎥Video Title: "We Found Gravitational Waves with a Telescope Made of Stars" 🎬YouTube link: https://youtu.be/2ApRctZrgJE #NANOGrav #GravitationalWaves

Prepare to be mesmerized by the power of dance and gravitational waves! 🕺✨Check out this video featuring Tyler Cohen (NRAO), as he harnesses the arts of dance and animation to demonstrate how gravitational waves warp spacetime. 📺YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/uH91gSI4ELs