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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 12/11/2025

📣 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/

An artist’s impression of a large red star releasing a bright, explosive burst of light. Swirling red and orange patterns surround the star, suggesting intense activity.

In the background, a smaller blue planet appears with a faint, wispy trail extending away from it, indicating its atmosphere being blown off. The scene is set against a dark space backdrop dotted with stars.

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

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

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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...

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Astronomers uncover white dwarf system emitting bright radio pulses with strange rhythm

YouTube video by AstronNL

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Sanne Bloot @astrosanne.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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/...

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Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new white-dwarf-hosting long-period transient | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

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

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Sanne Bloot @astrosanne.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

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

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Phenomenology and periodicity of radio emission from the stellar...

Stellar radio emission can measure a star's magnetic field strength and structure, plasma density and dynamics, and the stellar wind pressure impinging on exoplanet atmospheres. However, properly...

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Joe Callingham @astrojoe.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

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

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