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Connecting and sharing news, people, projects, voices and science from Australia and NZ’s space communities. 📸 CSIRO. www.spaceaustralia.com

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ARC Dark Matter Centre@darkmatteraus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Tune in to ABC Wimmera at 8.45am tomorrow morning to hear Kim Mintern-Lane talk about how you can virtually tour the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory, and upcoming opportunities to follow the progress of the SABRE South dark matter experiment. 🧪

Kim Mintern-Lane in Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory Headshot of Kim Mintern-Lane
Shanika Galaudage@astronerdika.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Forbidden black holes?! 👀 Check out this article about a really fun study led by PhD student Hui Tong 🤩 Looking at colliding black holes with gravitational waves, we are able to learn about the massive stars that formed them! #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #GravitationalWaves

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 3mo ago

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.
PlasmaNerd@plasmanerd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Without international partnerships Lunar travel would be much less safe or even feasible. Space research and exploration cannot be done alone. We don't go alone for us, but together for all.

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

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.
CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

And what I think is the most important aspect of the #ArtemisII mission - for the first time, a more diverse crew will extend their reach out into deep space, and look back and see our beautiful, blue spaceship home planet. Their experience will be representing so many more people!

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

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
CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

Did you know that there is also another Aussie team that is working with the #ArtemisII mission? Radio frequencies are not chock-o-block with all the different applications that use them. So, people are thinking about using lasers to transfer data. Demo happens on this mission with Mt Stromlo!

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

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.
CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

Exactly 12 hours out of lift off time for #ArtemisII ! 🚀 I'm super excited to share this story, once again on the little valley, just tucked away outside Canberra will play a huge role in this historic mission. Look at these beautiful antennas at the @canberradsn.bsky.social #SpaceAustralia

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 4mo ago

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.
Elizabeth Tasker@elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On Thursday (02/25) at 5pm JST I'll chat with Nate Taylor (Australian Space Agency) about the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission 🛰️, and the challenge of outreach for tiny asteroid grains that might tell a story as big as Earth. 🔭 Will this go smoothly? We have no idea. Come and join us for this online webinar 🧪

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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! 🔭

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 9mo ago

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 🔭

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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! 🔭

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 9mo ago

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

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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! 🔭

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 10mo ago

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.
CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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! 🔭

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 10mo ago

"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 🔭🧪

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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! 🔭

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · last yr.

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

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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. 🔭

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · last yr.

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

CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@rami.spaceaustralia.com · 7mo ago

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!

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · last yr.

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

Ryan White@astroryan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A terrific writeup from @rami.spaceaustralia.com on our recent Apep results and press release! Would highly recommend giving it a read :)

SpaceAustralia.com@spaceaustralia.com · 9mo ago

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 🔭