Monash Astrophysics

Great to see so many Monash researchers sharing their work at the ASA in Adelaide this week. Great science and great conversations all around.

🚀 Big news! Our School of Physics and Astronomy celebrates 12 laureates of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! 🌌 From Higgs bosons to rare particle decays, their work with CERN's LHCb is revolutionising science. 🏆 Read more: ow.ly/Hj3O50VAxqF #MonashScience

Monash researchers have simulated one of the lightest neutron stars ever—just 1.192 solar masses—bringing us closer to solving a key astrophysics puzzle. A leap forward for supernova science. 🌟🧠 #NeutronStars #Astrophysics #Supernova #MonashScience

📢 That’s a wrap on LVK Melbourne 2025! OzGrav was honoured to host this incredible gathering of colleagues from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA here in Australia to collaborate on the future of gravitational wave science. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and contributed 🌏✨

Today our first year astros did some solar observing 🌞 Lucky for them the Sun is near the peak of its 11 year cycle so we were able to spot some beautiful Sunspots. 🔭😮 Swipe to see them for yourself! ➡ @Monash_Science #sun #telescope

Exciting news! Monash University’s, Rowina Nathan, has authored a groundbreaking study using the powerful MeerKAT telescope to create the most detailed map of the gravitational wave background to date: shorturl.at/KRXKj 👉 an article on this work: shorturl.at/oS3G1

Just for fun, here's a visualisation I made of minor bodies in the solar system, revealing a disc-like structure youtu.be/c7fU4DKA0E8?si…

Published in @Nature today, researchers, using tools pioneered by astrophysicists led by @MonashAstro A/Prof. @amanda_karakas, calculated that it took the Sun 10-20 million years to form. #StellarEvolution Read more👇 monash.edu/science/news-e…

With the Leonid meteor shower expecting to hit peak visibility next week, @MonashAstro Associate Professor @MJIBrown shares with @9NewsAUS on how, when and where to catch a glimpse of the annual event ☄️ 9news.com.au/national/leoni…

Huge congratulations to Tom who submitted his PhD thesis “Multi-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Calculations for Asymmetric Stripped-Envelope Supernovae” today ✨🎉💥

Happy birthday Murriyang! #OnThisDay in 1961 on Wiradjuri Country, we inaugurated Murriyang, our Parkes radio telescope – and it’s still going strong over 60 years later, as one of the best single-dish radio telescopes in the world! What have you discovered with #Murriyang?

@astroambies Yes! You can read it here! nature.com/articles/s4158… or arxiv.org/abs/2403.13209

@MonashAstro is there a link to this paper? it sounds very interesting and I'd like to read it :))

Congratulations to Monash Astrophysicist Dr Fan Liu who was awarded the Monash Faculty of Science Publication Award for their paper At Least One in a Dozen Stars Shows Evidence of Planetary Ingestion, Nature (2024).

A spooky pulsar, jack-o-lantern binary carved pumpkin 🎃 Happy Halloween from Monash Astrophysics ✨ #Halloween #science

What’s more spooky than a graveyard where stars are shredded by giant black holes? aasnova.org/2024/10/30/mon…

Today, the ARC held an induction for the 2024 Future Fellowship recipients. In attendance were past Fellowship recipients Prof Alan Gamlen (@ourANU), Prof Fleur Johns (@UNSW), and Prof Ilya Mandel (@MonashUni) who shared tips for success on completing a research fellowship.

In a world where space exploration and planetary defence are becoming increasingly critical, graduates like Mark Fittock play a vital role in shaping the future. Find out about Mark's involvement in the early phases of @esa's Hera mission 🚀 monash.edu/science/news-e…

Congrats to Dr Cameron Bentley @ChemistryMonash and Dr Hoaran Ren @MonashAstro on both winning the Faculty Award for Research Excellence by an ECR 👏👏 Learn more about the #MonashScienceAwards 👉 monash.edu/science/awards

Dr Fan Liu's ground-breaking paper on planetary ingestion, published in @Nature, offers critical insights into star-planet interactions, challenging existing theories of planetary engulfment @MonashAstro Learn more about the #MonashScienceAwards 👉monash.edu/science/awards

Today we had our beyond third year event, to encourage undergraduate students to consider further study in physics and astronomy. 🪐🔭 Students mingled with potential supervisors and we are looking forward to welcoming them next year! ✨ @Monash_Science