Congrats to Natasha Van Bemmel on winning an MNRAS Student Prize. The MNRAS editors selected her first‑author paper, An Optically Led Search for Kilonovae to z~0.3 with KNTraP, as one of six best student‑led publications this year, what a debut!
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Swinburne’s Indigenous Astrophysics Work Experience Program returns this July, giving First Nations Year 10-12 students a week of hands-on astrophysics, blending cutting-edge research with the world’s oldest sky stories.
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Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down – and the source is not what astronomers expected Recently, astronomers have been puzzled by an unknown type of cosmic radio signal. A new breakthrough has finally traced one of them.

A mysterious radio signal from space has been tracked down to an unexpected star!
Read The Conversation article by OzGrav postdoc Dr Iris de Ruiter here: theconversation.com/a-mysterious...
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Tiny Yet Impactful Clues to Unlocking Cosmic Mysteries Have you ever imagined that something tiny in the universe could significantly impact its evolution and reveal hidden cosmic phenomena?

🌌 Ever wondered how tiny particles like neutrinos & neutron stars shape the universe? Join us on 21 Feb at 5:30 pm for Tiny yet impactful clues to unlocking cosmic mysteries with PhD students Pratyasha & Nimas. Free event! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tiny-yet-i...
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‘A ship on the ocean of reality’: New maps show universe is even weirder than we thought A decade ago, astronomers observed gravitational waves for the first time. What has emerged since is a picture of the universe as a vast ocean – dark and powerful.

“The Earth is really just a ship, being bounced across the waves. The universe is constantly changing size. Time is constantly changing. The Earth is just riding that wave.”
#GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics #MeerKAT #SpaceScience #OzGrav #CosmicMysteries

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Swinburne University of Technology Researcher Leads Breakthrough in Neutron Star Study

More good work by the #OzGrav team at @Swinburne. www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2024/07...