Did #JWST plus #ALMA just reveal how #pulsars form?
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-alma-how-pulsars-form/

Exciting Pulsar Discoveries: Cosmic Cannonballs and Stars Turning Into Planets - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX27xyXwp3U

#Astronomy #cosmology #Pulsars

#Astronomers are Hoping the #EventHorizon #Telescope saw #Pulsars Near the #MilkyWay's Supermassive #BlackHole
https://www.universetoday.com/163012/astronomers-are-hoping-the-event-horizon-telescope-saw-pulsars-near-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole/

A Bizarre Pulsar Switches Between Two Brightness Modes. Astronomers Finally Figured Out Why.

Pulsars spin so predictably you could set your atomic clock to them. But one pulsar, nicknamed J1023, has puzzled astronomers because it constantly switches between two brightness modes, sometimes throwing off high-energy photons and then shifting to low mode, which beams radio waves. Astronomers knew it was orbiting another star, pulling away material, but they didn't know what was causing this change in brightness. A worldwide team of researchers directed 12 telescopes at J1023, revealing the complicated dance between the two stars that generates this odd behavior.

#pulsars

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2315/

Magnetar Glitches, Fast Radio Bursts, And…Asteroids??? https://www.universetoday.com/161797/we-just-saw-an-asteroid-hit-a-magnetar/ #astronomy #pulsars

New tee arrived yesterday and it merges together two excellent pop culture pieces with some beautiful science.

I call it: ‘The Gravitational Wave Background’
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Can’t wait to wear this in summer just so I can talk about the GWB to randoms.

Here’s also some words I wrote about the GWB on #SpaceAustralia pre the big announcements made at end of June.

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/universes-roaring-low-frequency-gravitational-wave-background

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars

We have a fascinating interview with #astronomy legend Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Discoverer of #pulsars and passionate advocate of women in science. #astrodon

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awesomeastronomy/20230215--Awesome-Astronomys-February-Episode-Part2.mp3

We have a fascinating interview with #astronomy legend Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Discoverer of #pulsars and passionate advocate of women in science. #astrodon

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awesomeastronomy/20230215--Awesome-Astronomys-February-Episode-Part2.mp3

We have a fascinating interview with #astronomy legend Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Discoverer of #pulsars and passionate advocate of women in science. #astrodon

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awesomeastronomy/20230215--Awesome-Astronomys-February-Episode-Part2.mp3

We have a fascinating interview with #astronomy legend Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. Discoverer of #pulsars and passionate advocate of women in science. #astrodon

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/awesomeastronomy/20230215--Awesome-Astronomys-February-Episode-Part2.mp3

HAPPENING TONIGHT! 8pm AEST

I’ll be giving an online talk about my fav and all-round weirdo space objects - pulsars! All ages welcome and will feature some basics along with some sciencey content + a little bit about my current research.

Thanks to the Astro. Society of Victoria for this opportunity!

Event requires rego but is free. Broadcast on YouTube/FB/Twitch. Please come along if you’re free.

https://www.youtube.com/live/-1xqgSxhj3Q?feature=share

#Astrodon #Pulsars #RadioAstronomy

Forgot to share this here, but 6 August is the anniversary of the discover of #Pulsars by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

She was looking through the roll of data from the telescope she helped build and noticed a little bit of ‘scruff’.

Her discovery changed our understanding of the Universe but sadly her male supervisor took credit and got the Nobel prize for it!

Read more: https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/55-years-pulsar-science

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #SpaceAustralia

Reposting this wonderful content

#stem #science #jameswebb #physics #technology #pulsars

That time an Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers - Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive sta... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958018 #historyofscience #astronomy #science #physics #pulsars #radar

Ars Technica: That time an Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers https://arstechnica.com/?p=1958018 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #historyofscience #astronomy #Science #Physics #pulsars #science #radar

A real fascinating story of how an 81-year-old former Air Force chap had come forward to announce he saw pulsars well before they were discovered but could not talk about it for half a century until the military instruments he observed them with were decommissioned and de-classified.

In a nutshell, he was using radar for a Ballistic Missile early warning system and noticed a pulsating signal showing up in his data, which was rising 4 mins earlier each day. He asked astronomers after writing down the location, and it was the Crab Pulsar!

The woman who discovered pulsars, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell - agreed with his discoveries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/448974a

Sent this to our team's slack channel overnight, and my supervisor told me he and another one of our team's astronomers were the folks that the Air Force chap got in touch with!

Small world, and a nice Aussie connection!

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/983/1/642/620966/An-Independent-1967-Discovery-of-Pulsars?redirectedFrom=PDF

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #Defence #Science

Astronomers Find Mysterious, Slowly Pulsing Star
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-mysterious-slowly-pulsing-star/

An unidentified source has been beaming out a pulse of radio waves every 22 minutes since 1988. The post Astronomers Find Mysterious, Slowly Pulsing Star appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
#Astronomy_&_Observing_News #Stellar_Science #Pulsars #radio_astronomy

Gravity Wave Detector is Galactic Sized - Detecting gravity waves isn’t easy. But what if you had a really big detector for ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/15/gravity-wave-detector-is-galactic-sized/ #gravitywaves #science #pulsars #space #news

She helped set up the UK Athena Swan #womenInSTEM programme. In 2018 she was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her discovery of #pulsars & leadership in science. She donated money to the Institute of Physics for PhD scolarships for underrepresented people including women, ethnic minorities & refugee students in physics!

"The Parkes radio telescope Murriyang, which helped broadcast the moon landing in 1969, has played a central role in another scientific discovery.

CSIRO scientists working at Murriyang have been observing an array of nano hertz frequency pulsars for almost 20 years. They are ripples in space time [gravitational waves] that are nearly the same size as the Milky Way.

The longevity of the experiment is due to the waves being years or even decades in length." #science #astrophysics #physics #astronomy #RadioAstronomy #RadioTelescope #Australia #Parkes #Murriyang ##GravitationalWaves #MilkyWay #pulsars #telescope #CSIRO

Parkes telescope finds evidence of gravitational waves, unlocking ‘a new window into the universe’ | Rural Australia | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/12/parkes-radio-telescope-gravitational-waves-evidence-murriyang