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Introducing the Micronova

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) operating since 2018, monitors the brightness variations of hundreds of thousands of objects in the sky. Amongst the targets we monitor are a few hundred accreting white dwarfs. Three of these have revealed rapid and energetic bursts of light... click to read more

Simone Scaringi | Professor at Durham University

astrophysics

white dwarfs

astronomy

Novae

Reading time 3 min

published on Jul 24, 2023

The Discovery Of An Unusual Repeating Radio Transient

Radio astronomy is experiencing a renaissance due to global work toward the Square Kilometer Array, which will be the world’s largest radio telescope. Our team works on a radio telescope that explores new technologies for the SKA: the Murchison Widefield Array. It observes at low... click to read more

Natasha Hurley-Walker | Senior Lecturer, ARC Future Fellow at Curtin University, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Perth, Australia

radio

astronomy

transient

pulsar

Reading time 3 min

published on Aug 22, 2022