Astronomy on Tap is coming soon to Melbourne ✨ Come along to learn about astronomy, current research, and have some drinks doing so! #AstroOnTap

In the midst of the madness of submitting my PhD thesis last week, I also submitted my 2nd paper which is now out on arXiv! Check it out to learn about a rare ultra fast dwarf nova we discovered with KNTraP ✨ arxiv.org/abs/2510.26682 #astronomy 🔭

Genuinely unreal to have my first paper recognised like this - thank you to the editorial board for considering my work! ✨

Spot the difference 😤🔭

With a lot of tough things happening in the world riggr now, the misinformation that stars are dead when you wish on them feels very mean spirited 🥺 luckily, I looked into it and worked out that the stars we wish on are very much alive 🌟 🧪🔭

My first first-author paper just dropped on arXiv ✨👩‍🔬🧪🔭 Introducing the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP), a search specifically designed to find a kilonova. Check it out here to see the methods developed to scour the data for kilonova candidates, and what we found: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16136

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

Don't mind me. Just illustrating a text on the river model for black holes. Some fish swimming at the "speed of fish", in a river whose flow speed gets faster from right to left. H is the "river horizon". An external observer will never see a fish that is to the left of H swim to the right. 🧪🔭⚛️

Hello! My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩‍🔬