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Perth, Western Australia
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I'm joining the Xodus. I can't bear what the owner of this website stands for. See you over on @colourfulcosmos.bsky.social .
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
@ColourfulCosmos from @CurtinUni has all the details 👇
theconversation.com/a-myster…
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
We're hearing a lot of buzz and excitement for @ColourfulCosmos' talk at #APRIM2023 on long transients -- her plenary session is 9am local time today so don't miss it! aprim2023.org/program/progra… #atnf
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
@ColourfulCosmos from @CurtinUni has all the details 👇
theconversation.com/a-myster…
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
@ColourfulCosmos from @CurtinUni has all the details 👇
theconversation.com/a-myster…
And I'm advertising for PhD positions, too!
(Aus/NZ students only I'm afraid!)
Hey - if you're an undergrad student and want to work with @ColourfulCosmos on some of those radio transients we've been talking about, then we've got the summer project for you: icrar.org/study-with-icrar/s…
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
A long-period radio transient active for three decades, by Natasha Hurley-Walker @ColourfulCosmos and co-authors: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Check out the News & Views by Victoria M. Kaspi highlighting the remarkable foresight of scientists in bygone years: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
ALT This is Figure 2 of the paper, showing 78 representative pulses of the source, recorded over 34 years.
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
A Repeating Radio Burst Astronomers Can’t Explain Isn’t Going Away
iflscience.com/a-repeating-r…
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
In research published today in @nature, ICRAR astronomers using the @mwatelescope and led by @ColourfulCosmos discover what may be a 'long-period #magnetar' - a new kind of slowly spinning star whose radio emissions "shouldn’t be possible". icrar.org/magnetar/
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
Astronomers from @ICRAR using the @mwatelescope and three @CSIRO_ATNF telescopes have discovered a new type of stellar object that upsets our understanding of neutron stars. 🌟
Here's why we're excited: csiro.au/en/news/All/News/20…
📷 | Pete Wheeler
#Magnetar
ALT One of 256 tiles of the Murchison Widefield Array in the Western Australian desert.
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
A team of astronomers, lead by @ColourfulCosmos, used the @mwatelescope to discover a long-period radio transient that has been active for almost three decades. The object was confirmed in archival data from the #VLA and the #GMRT, with detections going as far back as 1988!
Once found by the team at@CurtinUni, the object was confirmed by observations from @CSIRO_ATNF, @SKA_Africa, @ESA_XMM & @IAC_Astrofisica – and found in archives at @TheNRAO and @NCRA_Outreach as far back as 1988. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Read on to hear my theory on the "aliens of the gaps" 🖖
Astronomers have detected a long-running source of slow, repeating radio pulses that can’t be explained by current theories – but it’s probably not aliens.
@ColourfulCosmos from @CurtinUni has all the details 👇
theconversation.com/a-myster…
You asked me whether we'd found any other weird slowly-repeating radio sources and all I could say was: "watch this space". Until today!
We've found a new object - and this one breaks all the rules!
In research published today in @nature, ICRAR astronomers using the @mwatelescope and led by @ColourfulCosmos discover what may be a 'long-period #magnetar' - a new kind of slowly spinning star whose radio emissions "shouldn’t be possible". icrar.org/magnetar/
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
Great to attend the Faculty of Science and Engineering Excellence 2022 Awards @CurtinUni. Many congratulations to @ColourfulCosmos who is a winner of the Mid-Career Research Award. 🥳 🎉
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker retweeted
Results just released from @NANOGrav and international partners show - for the first time - the signature of long-wavelength gravitational waves rippling through space. (1/n)
Gorgeous videos of the meteor in the comments. Enjoy! 🌠
