Stories 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! 🔭

Stories 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! 🔭

Stories 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! 🔭

Stories 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! 🔭

Stories 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! 🔭

Stories 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. 🔭

Stories 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!

Almost 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

A 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 🔭

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

What 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. 🔭🧪📡

Professor 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

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 🔭🧪

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 🔭🧪📡

"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 🔭🧪

"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 🔭🧪

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! 🙏🏼

And also for #Melbourne folks — there is also tickets available for this event on Wednesday evening!

We 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... 🧵 👇

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_...

And 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!

Aussie 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!

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

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 📡🔭

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 📡🔭

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

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

Tiny 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

EOIs 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...

Fascinante 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👇

This 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!

RADIO + 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

In 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 🔭

This 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 🔭

Yo, #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 🔭

The 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 🔭☄️

Unos investigadores han encontrado un método para investigar la ionosfera terrestre mediante la señal GPS de nuestros móviles

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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

This 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...

Australia 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...

🌌 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

First 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 ⚛️

while 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...

A nice article on Europa Clipper and its exploration context! @helen-e-mc.bsky.social