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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026

As part of a collaboration between PhD students, these observations were taken with Murriyang (CSIRO Parkes radio telescope) and verified with South Africa's MeerKAT. Check out the feature article: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/disc... 📸 Mandow et al. 2026 #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy 🔭🧪📡

Three-panel image. Two small square panels on the left side show the eigenprofile of the principal component for two telescopes. It features a sharp narrow peak and two smaller narrow troughs on either side. The larger third panel on the right plots the data points as a function of time on the x-axis and normalised PC score on y-axis. The curves start with a gradual recovery then suddenly dip before slowly recovery back exponentially too.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026

J0437 is the brightest and closest MSP to Earth. Both events altered the same profile components in the same way and followed a similar evolution over time, exhibiting frequency dependence and affecting polarisations. 📸 Mandow et al. 2026 #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy 🔭🧪📡

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026

Are millisecond Pulsars, nature's cosmic clocks, as stable as we once thought? A new study by @rami.spaceaustralia.com has reported the discovery of two consecutive profile change events on PSR J0437-4715. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/disc... 📸 NASA SVS #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy 🔭🧪📡

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 01/06/2026

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

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 22/05/2026

This work, from PhD student Hui Tong looked at gravitational-wave data and found that nature really does avoid forming black holes in a particular mass range. Read @astronerdika.bsky.social article here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/black-h... 📸 Tong et al. 2026 #SpaceAustralia

A plot showing the inferred masses of merging binary black holes. The main panel shows primary black-hole mass, m1, on the vertical axis and secondary black-hole mass, m2, on the horizontal axis, both in solar masses. Orange shading marks where binary black holes are more likely to be found, concentrated mostly below about 50 solar masses. A dashed diagonal line marks equal masses, where m1 = m2. Blue marginal distributions along the top and right show the individual mass distributions, with a labeled “pair

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 22/05/2026

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

Infographic titled “Pair-Instability Supernova,” with the subtitle “how very massive stars can destroy themselves completely.” Three illustrated panels show the process from left to right. In the first panel, “Pair Production,” high-energy photons inside a massive star create electron–positron pairs, shown in a zoomed-in bubble, draining pressure support from the core. In the second panel, “Core Contraction,” the star’s core contracts and heats up as radiation pressure can no longer balance gravity. In the third panel the star has blown itself up with the world "Total Disruption" below it.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 01/04/2026

Importantly, #ArtemisII is going to set some new records that have not been attempted for 54 years. And for the first time, the first woman, the first person of colour and the first non-American will travel to lunar space. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 📸 ULA #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

Silhouetted image of the Artemis II rocket standing at the launch pad with the Sun behind it

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 01/04/2026

The CDSCC is not the only Aussie team that is working with the #ArtemisII mission - researchers from @scienceanu.bsky.social are also testing emerging technology that allows data to be transmitted via lasers, instead of radio waves at Mount Stromlo. 📸 Nic Vevers / ANU #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

A man stands next to a relatively large optical telescope, and is looking into the side of it. The telescope is located inside the dome of an observatory which is open.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 01/04/2026

Tomorrow morning, Australia will play a vital role in supporting #ArtemisII through @canberradsn.bsky.social @rami.spaceaustralia.com chatted with CDSCC, @drspacejunk.bsky.social, NASA and more about this historical mission. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 📸 R. Mandow #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

Black and white photo of a road with two arrows pointing in opposite directions. To the left of the road, and a little down the distance is a large radio telescope, pointing away from the viewer.

Two radio antennas at the CDSCC. Their dishes are both pointing at the same inclination angle.

A large white dish antenna in the distance over a grassy hill. In the foreground a large boulder. Behind and further back are some rolling hills.

Three large radio dish antennas, one in the foreground, and two off in the distance.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 09/03/2026

Could a powerful geomagnetic storm be the reason 8,000 Victorian homes suddenly lost power in January this year? @rami.spaceaustralia.com chats with Dr Richard Marshall from BoM Space Weather about the risks of solar storms. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/eart... 📸 NASA SVS #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 27/01/2026

Huge thanks to the OzGrav, ARC-DMPP and SUPL teams who supported and facilitated this visit in 2025. #SpaceAustralia

Two people: Dr Katie Mack and Rami Mandow, standing in the large main chamber of the SUPL facility. They are wearing high-vis vests and protective boots in the clean room.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 27/01/2026

After nearly a decade of work, scientists, engineers and researchers from @darkmatteraus.bsky.social @ozgrav.bsky.social and the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) expect to begin first data-taking this year -- a major milestone that could reshape our understanding of the Universe.

SUPL door sign: Completion of Stage 1 of the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory was officially celebrated on Friday 19 August 2022. The facility was built on the lands of the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawarjali, Wergaia, and Jupagulk peoples, and we are proud to acknowledge their continued custodianship of these lands and waters. The facility was funded with the support of the Australian Government and the Victorian Government. The facility was constructed with the support of the Stawell Gold Mines.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 27/01/2026

One of Australia’s most ambitious physics experiments that will search for Dark Matter is shaping up below regional Victoria. @astrokatie.com & @rami.spaceaustralia.com visited the site to see the project taking shape. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... #SpaceAustralia 📸 F. Morrison/SUPL 🔭

Two people: Dr Katie Mack and Rami Mandow, standing outside the entry door to the SUPL facility. Both are wearing a high-vis vest, helmet, glasses.

A large, empty room inside an underground mining facility. The walls are lined with a special paint and feature running pipes and scaffolding. There is also a crane at the top.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 19/11/2025

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 🔭

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 17/11/2025

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

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 20/10/2025

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

Split image. On left is a radio chart showing a squiggly line annotated with the date and sky reference, of where the pulsar was detected. On the right is a woman standing with a chart in her hand, with a large radio telescope in the background.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2025

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 🔭🧪

Earth centred on a curving green sheet representing spacetime and surrounded by pulsars with radio beams in all directions

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2025

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 🔭🧪📡

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 30/09/2025

"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 🔭🧪

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 10/07/2025

And lastly, for #Melbourne, come along to a special @queersinscience.bsky.social event at The Oxford Scholar to hear from our queer scientists across different fields, as well as @astrokatie.com This is at around 80% capacity already, so get in quick! (FREE) queersinscience.org.au/event/queer-...

Queers in Science poster showing a gid of 6 photos of scientists. There is a QR code in the top left. The text reads:

Queer Astronomy:
QIS Panel feat. Dr Katie Mack

We’re putting on a special QueersInSci-Fi edition with special guest Dr Katie Mack and QIS panellists: Krystal De Napoli, Catriona Vi Nguyen-Robertson,
Deanne Fisher and Rami Mandow.
MC: Chloe Mackallah

Date: 17th July 2025
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Where: Lvl 1, The Oxford Scholar, Melb.
Snacks provided

FREE EVENT - BOOKING REQUIRED

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 10/07/2025

Then, later on that evening in #Melbourne will be @astrokatie.com at Swinburne University / @ozgrav.bsky.social for a public lecture on 'The End of Everything' This is SELLING FAST, so grab your tickets ($) from here not to miss out: www.swinburne.edu.au/events/2025/...

Swinburne Uni, website page showing Dr Katie Mack in an event page, with her book 'The End of Everything' also showing. Details for the event time, location, cost and registration link are also shown.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 10/07/2025

First up for #Melbourne, we have our Science Communication panel, hosted by @ozgrav.bsky.social and at Swinburne Uni. featuring @astrokatie.com, Dr Kirsten Banks, Dr Sara Webb, and @cosmicrami.com. Moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy. Grab your FREE tickets here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/science-co...

Graphic that shows a background of stars. Overlaid are the five panel members: Alan Duffy, Katie Mack, Rami Mandow, Sara Webb and Kirsten Banks. The graphic is annotated with “Science Communication Panel: Telling the Stories of the Universe”

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 10/07/2025

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... 🧵 👇

Sydney Uni event webpage showing Dr Katie Mack with her arms crossed in an image. Overlaid is the words "Sold Out". THe event page has information about the event occurring at Sydney University.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 08/07/2025

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_...

A sharp-edged building that is being imaged from the front facade, whilst the sun has set. The words "Macquarie University - Sydney Australia" are annotated.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 11/06/2025

And last but not least, come along to a special @queersinscience.bsky.social event, where @astrokatie.com and four other queer scientists will be sharing about their work and how their queerness has shaped their professional journey in STEM. queersinscience.org.au/event/queer-... #Melbourne 6/6

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 11/06/2025

Then we're off to #Melbourne! Come along to a fun discussion on #ScienceCommunication with a panel featuring @astrokatie.com, @cosmicrami.com, Dr Kirsten Banks, Dr Sara Webb and moderated by Prof. Alan Duffy. Hosted by @ozgrav.bsky.social at Swinburne Uni. www.ozgrav.org/event/scienc... 3/6

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 11/06/2025

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

Katie Mack portrait shot. She is looking off to the side, and smiling.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 05/06/2025

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 📡🔭

Christmas-tree shaped metallic antennas sitting atop a metallic mesh. This forms one station and there are several stations in this image. The whole set up is located on the flat, red-Earth region of outback Australia. This is a graphical representation only.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 05/06/2025

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 📡🔭

Plot with frequency on the X-axis (ranging from 73 - 234 MHz) and the percentage of images in which a Starlink satellite was identified. The plot also shows the median noise in the data set for each frequency band. The results show that in certain bands, between 150 - 200 MHz there is significant contamination from Starlink satellites.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 05/06/2025

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

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 28/05/2025

What makes ASKAP J1832-0911 stand out from the rest of the Long-Period Transients is that, for the first time, coincident X-ray emission, along with radio emissions, have also been detected from such an object, thanks to the Chandra X-ray Observatory. 📸 Ziteng (Andy) Wang / @icrar.bsky.social

Plot showing two tiles vertically stacked. Top tile shows the signal from this object as observed in radio. It presents as two narrow peaks. The bottom tile represents the signal in x-rays, and presents as more broader peaks that have extended features. The peaks for both radio and x-rays occur at the same phase

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 28/05/2025

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

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 09/04/2025

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

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 03/12/2024

An emerging class of objects in #RadioAstronomy, mostly discovered in the last few years, still can't be explained. Two new multi-wavelength studies might have answers. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mult... by @cosmicrami.com #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 📸 @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social /MWA/Curtin/ICRAR

Looking out across the red desert region of Western Australia. In the distance is a hill, and the ground has a red Earth colour. In the foreground is a large square metal mesh placed on the ground. Atop it are 16 spider-looking dipole antennas, arranged in a 4 x 4 grid. This is one of the MWA stations.

graphic showing a single magnetar that has beams coming from its poles and is surrounded by magnetic field lines

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 03/12/2024

MeerKAT's excellent sensitivity gives us the most detailed map of the GWB - and an interesting feature has appeared! @pinkastrophysicist.bsky.social from @monashastro.bsky.social / @ozgrav.bsky.social discusses these findings. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mapp... 📸 R. Nathan #SpaceAustralia

Aintoff projection map showing the entire sky as a function of galactic longitude and latitude. Overlaid on the oval-shaped map are contour lines that have a colour range of deep blue to white-blue. Also overlaid are several stars of different sizes, which represent the pulsars. There is a bright contour region near the southern pole. The text on the image reads: “This spot is brighter than the rest of the map!” and points to the bright spot. There is also a side note, that says “Note, the statistical significance of the hot spot is too low to claim a definite detection. The message this plot is conveying is that there is potentially an interesting signal in the southern hemisphere that seems brighter than the rest of the sky.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 03/12/2024

MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array team has announced evidence for the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB)! @cosmicrami.com had a chat with lead author @astromattmiles.bsky.social from @ozgrav.bsky.social www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta... 📸 C. Knox/Swinburne/OzGrav/SARAO #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 1/3

Graphic that shows a single dish from the MeerKAT telescope, and it is silhouetted across a background of illustrated supermassive black holes and space-time, represented by a warped grid.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 26/11/2024

1 in 100 billion! The double pulsar system, where both pulsar beams point at us, offers astronomers a unique chance to study extreme astrophysics. @cosmicrami.com chatted with @astromelow.bsky.social on his new paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unve... #SpaceAustralia 🔭📡🧪 📸M. Kramer/MPIfR

Illustration of a side view of the double pulsar system, with both pulsars sending out beams from their poles and surrounded by magnetic fields. Below them, a space-time grid is distorted in reaction to each pulsar's mass.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 17/10/2024

Europa Clipper is heading to the Jovian system. A small, icy moon there offers the possibility of it being habitable. @helen-e-mc.bsky.social examines the path that led to the start of this exciting mission. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/europa-... 📸 New Horizons/NASA/JHUAPL/SRI #SpaceAustralia 🔭

A small moon is half in shadow as it is rising above the larger planet. The surface of the moon is very smooth and on the planet itself some faint clouds can be seen.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 16/10/2024

Spectacular APOD today of the aurora over NZ, captured by Tristian McDonald from Lindis Pass on the South Island. 🔭 It even features the central region of our Milky Way Galaxy and the satellite Magellanic Clouds in the background. 📸 @apod.shinyakato.dev | apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24101...

Looking out across a meadow, where a river curves in and out of the image. The other regions are covered in grass and a few stones and off in the distance are some hills. The sky is illuminated mostly in bright, neon shades of pink and purple from the aurora, but also features several bright green spikes (also aurora). On the right, a long, narrow flux of aurora is present on its own. The background sky, behind the aurora is filled with stars and you can make out the central core component of the Milky Way as well as fuzzy patches of light which are the Magellanic Clouds. The aurora is reflecting off the river to the viewer as well.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 21/09/2024

Last week, Larryn Rae’s spectacular shot of the red aurora took out the best in category at the Astronomy Photography of the Year awards - first for Aurora Australis. @helen-e-mc.bsky.social discusses this win, and what aurora are. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/aurora-... #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

Night time image, looking out across a lake. In the foreground and shallow water are some rocks and in the distance are several rolling hills. Above the hills the night sky, filled with many stars and part of the Milky Way band is dominated by curtains of pink and reddish aurora. This is reflecting off the water in the lake as well.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 08/09/2024

The rapidly growing market of smart telescopes is leading the way in making #astrophotography more accessible and interesting to wider audiences. @cosmicrami.bsky.social compared the Seestar S50 to the more traditional setup. 🔭📸 www.spaceaustralia.com/news/democra... #SpaceAustralia 📸 R. Mandow

Image divided into four tiles. Top row is the Trifid Nebula. A dense star field surrounds a bright, multi-coloured nebula. One region of the nebula is reddish. This is the hydrogen gas that has been excited by the hot massive stars at the centre of the nebula, causing it to be ionised. This structure is also crossed by dark dust lanes, in an X-shape. These are the dark nebula which are silhouetted against the red portion of the nebula. To the lower left are faint hues of blue-green gas. This is the dust that is reflecting light in our direction. Bottom row is the Helix Nebula. It features a central, large ring-like nebula. The inner part of the ring is a blue-green colour and is diffuse, whilst the outer ring region is reddish in hue, much more defined and clumpy. A central small white star, the white dwarf, emits powerful UV radiation which excites the different elements producing different colours. Surrounding the nebula are many stars. Images on the left are of higher resolution.

Four tile image. In the top row is the Pillars of Creation, three finger-like giant molecular clouds that are darker and more dense, relative to the background surrounding red nebula. These giant structures are parts of the Eagle Nebula, where star formation is occurring. In the bottom row are black and white images of NGC 1232, a face-on spiral structure that has intricate and tight winding spiral arms. The left-hand column images are sharper and exhibit less noise, whilst the images on the right, whilst still very good, are not as resolved.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 30/07/2024

This time of year is always great to check out meteor showers! Read: The ultimate sky guide to catching meteor showers from your backyard, written by @jontihorner.bsky.social & Dr Tanya Hill a little while back for #SpaceAustralia www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/ne... 📷 J. Sullivan/Flickr 🔭🧪

panoramic shot of a deep and dens star-filled sky, sitting above a horizon showing a low gradient slope mountain. The mountain is silhouetted. In the sky, many meteors are captured in this long exposure image.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 16/07/2024

Astronomers suggest that Omega Centauri, a massive globular cluster orbiting our Galaxy, likely has a 20,000 solar mass black hole in its core. @cosmicrami.bsky.social spoke with Uni. of QLD's Dr Baumgardt, a co-author on the paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/omega-c... 📷 ESO 🔭🧪 #SpaceAustralia

a bright, ball of stars, collected together centrally. The cluster of stars features mostly white stars but there are numerous blue and red stars also. The density of stars is highest at the centre, and drops radially, giving the perspective of a hive-like structure swarming with points of light.

A dense star field of mostly smaller orange and white stars with blue stars and red stars peppered across the image

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 15/07/2024

Australian astronomers, using Murriyang (Parkes radio telescope) data & working with NICER researchers have made the most precise measurements of the nearest millisecond pulsar to Earth. @cosmicrami.bsky.social outlines results: www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/clos... 📷 C. Knox/OzGrav/Swinburne 🔭🧪

Graphic showing a grid of space-time. On the right is a depression on the grid. Over it is a large, spherical yellow-white object and besides that is a smaller blue spherical object. This is the white dwarf and the pulsar. The pulsar is emitting beams of radiation from its magnetic poles. The system is causing the depression or warping of space-time below it.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 06/06/2024

A new population of neutron stars, but with long spin periods, is emerging. Could astronomers be on the brink of something new? @cosmicrami.bsky.social speaks to Manisha Caleb, lead author of this exciting new paper. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/popu... #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪 📸 Carl Knowx/OzGrav

Artist's illustration of a radio telescope pointing upwards towards the sky. The background is divided into two halves. On the left is the pulsar, with chaotic magnetic field lines emanating from it. On the right is a white dwarf star. In both backgrounds, there is plenty of stars.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 04/06/2024

Research from Macquarie University PhD student Sarah Caddy has shown that bright stars can be observed during daylight hours, as well as tracking Earth's satellites. @cosmicrami.bsky.social spoke with Sarah about her work www.spaceaustralia.com/news/seeing-... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Caddy et al. 2024

Three tile image. On the left is a telescope that features many lenses. The two images on the right are from the telescope. The top image is that of a star taken during the day and the one on the bottom is the space station taken during the day. It is black and white, and a little grainy.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 31/05/2024

Aussie astronomers have used Murriyang (Parkes radio telescope) to confirm the closest millisecond pulsar to the Galactic Centre! @cosmicrami.bsky.social spoke to @astromelow.bsky.social about this exciting new science. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/millise... #SpaceAustralia 📸 Heywood / R. Mandow

Radio image of a section of The Snake filament, that shows a bright, yellow diagonal feature in the image. Next to it is a bright point-source that is annotated PSR J1744-2946.

The Parkes radio telescope tilted on its side and slightly upwards. In the foreground are gardens and three poles with three flags upon them.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 26/05/2024

A new paper reports that VFTS 243, a massive binary system featuring an O-class star and a 10 solar-mass black hole companion might have formed through the 'complete collapse scenario'. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/black-h... by @cosmicrami.bsky.social 📸 ESO / l. Calçada #SpaceAustralia 🔭

Illustration of a bright, large blue star in the centre of a star field. On the lower right limb of the star is a smaller, spherical black object with circular ring of warped light around it (this is the black hole).

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 21/05/2024

'Only The Astronauts' gives voice to our iconic and sometimes contentious inanimate space objects. @cosmicrami.bsky.social spoke with Ceridwen Dovey about her innovative blend of fiction, humanities, and the history of space exploration. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/only-as... #SpaceAustralia 🔭📚

Fictional image of ‘Only The Astronauts’ book, floating in space with nebulae and stars in the background.

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SpaceAustralia.com @spaceaustralia.com · 07/03/2024

EXCITING NEWS! The first SKA-low antennas are being installed today in Australia! Here's a feature article by @cosmicrami.bsky.social (2021) that outlines the road that has led to the development of the world's largest radio telescope: www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/fe... 📸 M. Goh/ICRAR/Curtin

Composite image showing the SKA-Low antennas all placed on a mesh, and the milky way galaxy above it. The SKA low antennas look like metallic framed Christmas trees.

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