Animation image showing the two antennas at the Canberra DSN locked onto the Artemis mission
Canberra DSN antennas DSS43 and DSS34 have signal lock on #ArtemisII right now, and as it goes behind the Moon.
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re-upping this story of the role that the Deep Space Network, in particular, how @canberradsn.bsky.social is an integral part of all of this.
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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
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Silhouetted image of the Artemis II rocket standing at the launch pad with the Sun behind it
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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Very excited to finally share this story!
Last year, @astrokatie.com and I got to visit the SUPL - the ambitious project building a dark matter detector below regional Victoria.
It's switching on this year, and could shift our views on the matter composition of our Universe!
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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.
Huge thanks to the OzGrav, ARC-DMPP and SUPL teams who supported and facilitated this visit in 2025.
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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.
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.
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oh yay!
Astronaut and space engineer Katherine Bennell-Pegg has been named Australian of the Year!
Good on her!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
Jocelyn Bell Burnell standing next to a field full of poles that have wires running across the top of them connecting them together. This is the radio telescope.
Almost forgot!
28 November = special day!
It's the day (1967) that Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell confirmed pulsars!
We've only known about them for <60 years.
Had a chat with 👑 JBB about this earlier this year 👇
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Excited to now share this story! Papers accepted!
Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about.
Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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.
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Earth centred on a curving green sheet representing spacetime and surrounded by pulsars with radio beams in all directions
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...
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Plot showing three rows and eight column grid. The rows represent the stokes parameters, and the columns represent different frequency bands. The data in the plots shows the profile residuals per band per stokes.
Three panels. Y-axis is normalised flix density, and x-axis on each is pulse phase. There are eight curves per panel, coloured individually and each representing a different frequency band. The left panel is the template and the remaining two panels are 50 days post event and 2 years post event. In the middle panel, three red arrows indicate regions of the profile that are affected by the change.
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.
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"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...
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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.
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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...
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Eris is a 25m, three-stage rocket and these first flights will be test flights.
The Gilmore team have been working really hard for years and it’s exciting to see this all come together.
We’ve covered their progress on @spaceaustralia.com:
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The ionosphere is cool. But you know what is cooler? Well, we can use smartphones to measure the temporal and spatial variations in our ionosphere caused by solar activity.
Made a little vid for @spaceaustralia.com
Read the article here: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/your-sm...
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