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Dr. John Barentine FRASI'm pleased to have a byline in Physics Today on this 'Quick Study' about <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/DarkAndQuietSkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkAndQuietSkies</a>. Thanks to my editor, Jennifer Sieben, and Jeff Warner for us of his amazing image that accompanies the story. <a href="https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44173/Threats-to-the-dark-and-quiet-sky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/44173/Threats-to-the-dark-and-quiet-sky</a><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LightPollution</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Satellites</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a>

MPI für Radioastronomie🥁 We start the day with great news:"The first image from the international SKA Observatory’s telescope in Australia, SKA-Low, has been released today – a significant milestone in its quest to reveal an unparalleled view of our Universe."👉 <a href="https://www.skao.int/en/news/621/ska-low-first-glimpse-universe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.skao.int/en/news/621/ska-low-first-glimpse-universe</a><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/ska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ska</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/skao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skao</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#australia</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/skalow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#skalow</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a>

Jennifer Lynn BartlettBarbara A. Williams, radio <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomer</a>1st African-American woman to earn PhD in <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a>, <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/UniversityofMaryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversityofMaryland</a> in 1981expanded our knowledge of compact <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#galaxy</a> clusters, galactic evolution<a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/histsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histsci</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophysics</a> photo courtesy S. Williams, Astronomers of the African Diaspora

jbz📡 Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space —<a href="https://flipboard.com/@Spacecom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Spacecom</a>｢ The red dwarf probably produces a stellar wind of charged particles, just like our Sun does. When the wind hits the white dwarf’s magnetic field, it would be accelerated, producing radio waves ｣<a href="https://www.space.com/the-universe/astronomers-have-pinpointed-the-origin-of-mysterious-repeating-radio-bursts-from-space" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/the-universe/astronomers-have-pinpointed-the-origin-of-mysterious-repeating-radio-bursts-from-space</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a>

CosmicRamiEVERYONE 🚨The SKAO has released some short video of one of the SKA-Low stations (located in Australia) making a pulsar detection.The SKA won’t be finished until around 2030s but stations will switch on so we’re heading into the early data collection stages.If you’ve never heard of the SKA, it’s a new instrument being built in Australia and South Africa — and will be the most powerful radio telescope on our planet.It’s going to change our view of the Universe, and has been decades in the making.Read more: <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/road-leads-square-kilometre-array" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/road-leads-square-kilometre-array</a><a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpaceAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceAustralia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Telescopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Telescopes</a>

CosmicRamiMore exciting, unexplained science! An emerging class of objects in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a>, mostly discovered in the last few years, still can't be explained.Now, two new multi-wavelength studies might have answers.Wrote about both these Aussie astronomy cases, and how they might be giving us those additional clues, to narrow in on what we are seeing.Are these an entirely new object all together? OR, do we need to re-think our physics? Both scenarios are fascinating.My next piece for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpaceAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceAustralia</a>: <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/multi-wavelength-views-new-galactic-radio-astronomy-mysteries" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/multi-wavelength-views-new-galactic-radio-astronomy-mysteries</a>📸 N. Hurley-Walker /MWA / Curtin / ICRAR<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a>

CosmicRamiSome exciting results!Using MeerKAT (super sensitive telescope array) the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) team have also found supporting evidence (with their assumptions and models) of the gravitational wave background (GWB) that other Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) announced last year. This is further independent verification!The Universe rattles!I had a chat with Dr. Matt Miles from Swinburne Uni / OzGrav about his lead-author paper and results: <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta-finds-evidence-gravitational-wave-background" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mpta-finds-evidence-gravitational-wave-background</a> But the fun doesn't stop there! An additional paper, co-authored by Rowina Nathan, used the MPTA data to make the most detailed map of the GWB, and found an intriguing anisotropy (though, statistically, could be insignificant). If it turns out to be true it shows the GWB is not isotropic, and we could be seeing a unique system or some unknown cosmology. Rowina wrote a piece in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpaceAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceAustralia</a> about this too: <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mapping-gravitational-wave-universe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/mapping-gravitational-wave-universe</a>Very cool science that take pulsars and turn the Galaxy into a detector. 📸 C. Knox/Swinburne/OzGrav/SARAO<a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pulsars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pulsars</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a>

CosmicRamiIt's <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pulsar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pulsar</a> confirmation day!Then PhD student, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, actually detected the first signals from a pulsar on 6 Aug '67. From those results, Queen JBB connected the dots, this was astrophysical!But after this first detection in Aug, there was nothing.Until Nov 28.Bell Burnell didn't give up in the meantime. She kept searching for the pulsar, and it was through her hard work, dedication, and persistence that the 28 Nov. confirmation came in.The 'little bits of scruff' returned! Astrophysics changed forever.Read more: <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-years-pulsar-science" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-years-pulsar-science</a>Unfortunately, she never received the Nobel Prize for this. A huge scar on the awards, to this day. 📸 CSIROpedia<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a>

CosmicRami1 in 100 billion! (well, so far ....)There is one, and ONLY one of these systems we know about. It features two neutron stars, both pulsars. In even better news, both of these pulsar beams shine in our direction - so we can study the light of one as it passes through the powerful magnetic field of the other. That's what Dr Marcus Lower from Swinburne University of Technology and his team did - they used the extremely sensitive MeerKAT telescope in South Africa to study the light, and polarization of one pulsar's beam as it passed through the magnetic field of the other.This is extreme astrophysics at its best.There is very much likely more double pulsars out there, but maybe only one beams at us, or none beam at us.So, this is the only one we have so far .... My latest for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SpaceAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceAustralia</a> <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unveiling-extreme-physics-galaxys-only-double-pulsar-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/unveiling-extreme-physics-galaxys-only-double-pulsar-system</a>📸M. Kramer/MPIfR<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pulsars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pulsars</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a>

Dr. John Barentine FRAS<a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a>, <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#satellites</a>, and <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a>: what's in store for FCC licensing of satellites in a 2nd Trump Administration? According to AIP Science Policy News, and referencing <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/brendancarrfcc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@brendancarrfcc</a>, it's not good.<a href="https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/project-2025-outlines-possible-future-for-science-agencies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/project-2025-outlines-possible-future-for-science-agencies</a><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Space</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/SpaceSustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceSustainability</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a>

Daniel Pomarèdein the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arXiv</a>The Last Arecibo Messageby Kelby D. Palencia-Torres and co-authors <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09790" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09790</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arecibo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arecibo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SETI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SETI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/message" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#message</a>

Daniel Pomarèdein the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arXiv</a>Revealing hidden structures in the Zone of Avoidance - a blind MeerKAT HI Survey of the Vela Superclusterby Sambatriniaina H. A. Rajohnson and co-authors <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07084" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07084</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/galaxies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#galaxies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cosmology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VelaSupercluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VelaSupercluster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophysics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MeerKAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeerKAT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#telescope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radiotelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radiotelescope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SKA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SKA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STEM</a>

CosmicRamiAlmost forgot!Oct 31 is the anniversary of Murriyang starting operations in 1961!63 years of operation, and it’s still giving us solid science/discoveries. Iconic Aussie astronomy infrastructure. ANd of course, my fav telescope in the world! Happy b'day, Dish! Wrote some words on this a few years back: <a href="https://www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/feature/60-years-science-wonder-happy-birthday-dish" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/feature/60-years-science-wonder-happy-birthday-dish</a>📸 CSIRO<a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Murriyang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Murriyang</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ParkesRadioTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ParkesRadioTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Telescopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Telescopes</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a>

New Mexico NomadLarge antennas in New Mexico hunt for cosmic treasures - <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/large-antennas-in-new-mexico-hunt-for-cosmic-treasures/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/large-antennas-in-new-mexico-hunt-for-cosmic-treasures/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#STEM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/offthebeatenpath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#offthebeatenpath</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/roadtrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#roadtrip</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/daytrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#daytrip</a>

CosmicRamilots of fun <a href="https://aus.social/tags/pulsar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pulsar</a> papers on arXiv today - but this is my fav (biased of course, some of these folks in our team, though this is not PPTA paper).Pulsar radio waves are scattered off turbulent ISM plasma structures (<= AU-sized) and present as scintillation arcs in power spectra analysis. What that means is that when we plot the spectrum over time, we can look at the power of that spectrum and we see these scintillation arcs - they are like ghosts inside the data!BUT - they tell us things!Arc curvature depends on distance, velocity, and orientation of scattering layers, so it can help probe these parameters.This was analysed for PSR J0437-4715 (closest and brightest millisecond pulsar to Earth) so the team modelled the pulsar-WD binary system ploughing through the ISM.Look at its bow-shock! From this model, they can see that the conical structure is tilted away from our view by about 23-degrees, and is caused by the pulsar moving (very fast) through the interstellar medium.In that second plt we can't see the pulsar (it's ~20km across), but that bright dot is the white dwarf companion. They're in a 5.7 day orbit, so effectively, from this distance we can say that the pulsar is in the same location.Check out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2410.21390<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a>

Prof Heino FalckeArticle in German news magazine <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DerSpiegel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DerSpiegel</a> about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StarLink</a> spoiling radio sky. My strong quotes below (Paywall 🙄) …<a href="https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/starlink-von-elon-musk-und-spacex-wie-die-satelliten-die-wissenschaft-behindern-a-765e30a1-a549-402e-829c-5f68eac3a501" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/starlink-von-elon-musk-und-spacex-wie-die-satelliten-die-wissenschaft-behindern-a-765e30a1-a549-402e-829c-5f68eac3a501</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/radioastronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioastronomy</a> “Wir können uns nicht auf warme Worte von Milliardären verlassen, wir brauchen internationale Absprachen und Regulierungen«, fordert der Radioastronom Heino Falcke von der Radboud University in Nijmegen. (1/2)

VK2TTYG'day! I'm a new VK ham living on Awabakal and Worimi country, previously on Gadigal country, and originally on Kaurna country.Hash-tagging more than usual because it's an <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> post…Accidental <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/SDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SDR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/SatNOGS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SatNOGS</a>, and some intense <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/antenna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antenna</a> design binges got me within cooee of <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/HamRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HamRadio</a>. I'm more <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/QRP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QRP</a> than not, well inclined to play with <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/DigitalModes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalModes</a> starting with <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/WSPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSPR</a>, and have a stupid idea for a particularly 'strine <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/BTOTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BTOTA</a> “contest”.

CosmicRamiI've just realised I never did my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> .... well, here goes! I've recently transitioned my career into radio astronomy, and I study pulsars. I get to use the wonderful, iconic Parkes radio telescope to do this work! I am doing this work with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project and Macquarie Uni.I am 9 days away from submitting my Master's thesis, where I have reviewed 10 millisecond pulsars to deem how suitable they are to use in searching for the yet-to-be-discovered stochastic gravitational wave background. I also founded SpaceAustralia.com a few years back - sharing lots of our local, and world-class astronomy, space community content out into the world.Absolutely love <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> and capture distant galaxies from my home, deep in the heart of the city's light pollution. Spiral galaxies are my fav! Identify as part of the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LGBTIQA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTIQA</a>+ community, married to my awesome hubby, and adore my little dog, Max. You'll probably be seeing lots of him! Say hi when you get a chance! <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pulsars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pulsars</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/RadioAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioAstronomy</a>

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