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We're excited for this week's release of @astrokirsten.bsky.social new book 'Lost in Space' and are giving away five FREE copies to celebrate! @rami.spaceaustralia.com had a chat with Kirsten about this new exciting chapter: www.spaceaustralia.com/news/lost-sp... #SpaceAustralia

FRB20240304B is now the most distant FRB ever detected, bursting when the Universe was a young three billion years old. MeerKAT detected it and localised it, then JWST followed up to identify the host galaxy. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/10-b... 📸 JWST/NASA/CSA/STScI/J. Olmsted #SpaceAustralia

💥A 10 billion-year-old radio signal reaches Earth 💥 🚨 Exciting new FRB paper led by @sydney.edu.au astronomers @manishacaleb.bsky.social & Dr Themiya Nanayakkara 🚨 www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/10-b... 📸 JWST/NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/T. Nanayakkara/J. DePasquale #SpaceAustralia #RadioAstronomy 🔭📡

Un système binaire compact d'étoiles dans lequel une naine blanche fortement magnétisée arrache de la matière à une étoile compagnon donne des indices sur la nature de certains "Long-Period Transient", de mystérieuses sources radio périodiques à longue période. Voir le lien cité ci-dessous ⬇️

Tune in to ABC Wimmera at 8.45am tomorrow morning to hear Kim Mintern-Lane talk about how you can virtually tour the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory, and upcoming opportunities to follow the progress of the SABRE South dark matter experiment. 🧪

Could this 'Rosetta Stone' white dwarf binary solve the mystery of Long-Period Transients? @rami.spaceaustralia.com chatted with lead author @funfactscience.com about this exciting discovery. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/new-... #SpaceAustralia 📸 C. Knox & J.P. Pritchard 🔭 #RadioAstronomy

Forbidden black holes?! 👀 Check out this article about a really fun study led by PhD student Hui Tong 🤩 Looking at colliding black holes with gravitational waves, we are able to learn about the massive stars that formed them! #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #GravitationalWaves

Some news about forbidden chonks ✨

Press conference shout-out to the Australian National University, which is a test site for #ArtemisII optical communications! 🧪

I’m pleased Australia is continuing its communications role in space travel

Without international partnerships Lunar travel would be much less safe or even feasible. Space research and exploration cannot be done alone. We don't go alone for us, but together for all.

Before a flyby can be properly considered, the #ESAJuice team need to improve knowledge of the moon's position. Stellar occultations are a great way to do that. The current occultation prediction is here: opop.obspm.fr/media/data/m... Register participation here: opop.obspm.fr/create_repor...

Any Sydney-based astronomers here? A team at Andalucia is coordinating an occultation campaign for one of Jupiter's small (2-5km) irregular moons, #Kallichore (a candidate for an #ESAJuice flyby) that'll be passing in front of a star at ~12:20UT on March 18th. opop.obspm.fr/media/data/c...

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. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/eart... 📸 NASA SVS #SpaceAustralia 🔭🧪

There's a #LunarEclipse coming this evening for folks in Australia, NZ and the Pacific Nations. Sydney Observatory is offerring opportunity to catch the eclipse in person, and online - partnering with Nagoya City Museum in Japan. Find out more details below

On Thursday (02/25) at 5pm JST I'll chat with Nate Taylor (Australian Space Agency) about the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission 🛰️, and the challenge of outreach for tiny asteroid grains that might tell a story as big as Earth. 🔭 Will this go smoothly? We have no idea. Come and join us for this online webinar 🧪

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. www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... #SpaceAustralia 📸 F. Morrison/SUPL 🔭

Interested in learning about the Stawell Underground Physics Lab and the SABRE South #darkmatter experiment? @spaceaustralia.com is a great place to start. Thank you @rami.spaceaustralia.com and @astrokatie.com for your interest & engagement in the project! www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/aust... 🧪

A terrific writeup from @rami.spaceaustralia.com on our recent Apep results and press release! Would highly recommend giving it a read :)