Namely, the pulsar is not located in the ‘Snake’, but rather the ‘Sunfish’!!

See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sun…

Important update on the millisecond pulsar in the Galactic Centre: arxiv.org/abs/2404.09098

A radio magnetar has been observed to precess shortly after an X-ray outburst. The precession decayed over the next few months and likely rules out freely precessing magnetars as the source of the fast radio bursts. Desvignes et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Meet the most attractive thing in the Universe: a magentar. 🧲

Magnetars are mysterious, but new research from astronomers using Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, have peered into its extreme local environment: csiro.au/en/news/All/Ar…

Cosmic clues from the strongest magnet in the Universe. 🔎

Researchers using Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.

CSIRO_ATNF csiro.au/en/news/All/Ne…

Astronomers caught the bizarre ‘awakening’ of an incredibly rare magnetic star.

Marcus Lower (@CSIRO) + colleagues used three of the world’s largest radio telescopes to capture never before seen changes in radio waves emitted by one of these rare objects. theconversation.com/we-saw-one-of-…

New research in Nature Astronomy might be the most attractive story you’ll read today.

​Magnetars are the Universe's strongest magnets. Data from Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope on Wiradjuri Country, reveals an unexpectedly complex environment.
csiro.au/en/news/All/Ne…

A wobbling magnetised star turns everything upside down: mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/…

Anyone interested in hiring an ambitious postdoc to run a massive pulsar survey between 2025-2028? Or to write a bunch of awesome papers on magnetars? (I already have the data)

If so, my current contract runs out mid-October!

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

Odysseus and The Dish

Murriyang, the CSIRO’s Parkes Radio Telescope, points toward a nearly Full Moon in this image from New South Wales, Australia, planet Earth. Bathed in moonlight, the 64 meter dish is receiving weak radio signals from Odysseus, following the robotic lander's…

'I'm a Bayesian. And if you're not, we can have a fight afterwards'

-- Nikhil Sarin at #AstroTDU

Did you know that Monash has a cutting of the apple tree Isaac Newton reportedly observed the apple fall from? It was planted in 1975 and boy has it grown in the 49 years since! Here you can see it on the day it was planted in 1975 and again today.

On to the Jackson-Gwilt Medal for #Astronomy next. This has been jointly awarded to Dr Keith Bannister of CSIRO and Professor Ryan Shannon of Swinburne University of Technology.

Congratulations Keith Bannister and Professor Shannon!

#RASawards

Hubble looked halfway back to the big bang to find the brightest and farthest fast radio burst to date, located within a group of galaxies that may be merging.

Called FRBs, these powerful bursts of energy can briefly outshine an entire galaxy: go.nasa.gov/47wxn34

#AAS243

Cats in Spaaace! NASA just streamed the first video from deep space via laser, and it’s more than just a cat meme.

The tech demo proved it’s possible to stream HD video from deep space – and lays the groundwork for human exploration of Mars. go.nasa.gov/47XDYom

Congratulations to to Matthew Bailes, Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin, #ShawPrize for astronomy winners for their discovery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), made with #Murriyang , our Parkes radio telescope

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And Marcus Lower on pulsars.