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.

📣 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...

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

SETI Live record button logo. Text: Pulsing White Dwarf! with Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot. Background: Artist's impression of a white dwarf star sending out a pulse next to a larger red giant star in the foreground. Inset: Photos of Simon Steel and Sanne Bloot.

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

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

Astronomers uncover white dwarf system emitting bright radio pulses with strange rhythm YouTube video by AstronNL

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...

Astronomers uncover white dwarf system emitting bright radio pulses with strange rhythm | ASTRON Researchers identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source. A team of astronomers at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for…

An international research team led by @astrosanne.bsky.social at ASTRON, identify a mystifying Long-Period Transient with 100% polarized radio emission, suggesting new type of cosmic radio source: www.astron.nl/astronomers-...

J1634+44 was also simultaneously discovered with CHIME by a team lead by Adam Dong. We're very happy to announce the discovery together! Read their paper here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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/...

11th BCool meeting 11th BCool meetingImage: Allison LiThe 11th Bcool meeting will take place from April 9-11 2024 at ASTRON in the Netherlands, situated in the lush Dwingelderveld National Park. The aim of this meeting is to strengthen links between the worlds of stellar magnetism and radio astronomy. The scope of the meeting covers both observations and theory in topics such as:magnetic fields of stars, brown dwarfs, and planetsdynamo processesstellar winds and coronal mass ejectionsstar-planet...

Delighted to announce that the next Bcool meeting take place from April 9-11th 2024 at ASTRON! The deadline for registration and abstract submission is March 8th. Details: indico.astron.nl/e/bcool2024

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...

If you want to know everything about the radio properties of AU Mic (and stellar radio emission in general), check out Sanne's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2312.09071

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

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...

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

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