Many of the stars in our Milky Way are part of binary systems. A good percentage of these systems are composed of two stars that orbit each other at a certain distance, but there are other binaries where both of the stars are so close that we can say they almost touch each other. #AstroSci 1/13

Warwick press release: Public take the lead in discovery of new exploding star
warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Article by Killestein et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...

Breaking my Bluesky hiatus to share that our paper on GOTO0650, the new dwarf nova discovered by Kilonova Seekers and followed up with a worldwide team of citizen scientists, was published today in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Read the full press release here: warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Just booked a one-way flight for the first time - moving abroad in 3 weeks is starting to feel very real :)

Welp, after 3.25 years of good luck and careful hand hygiene I finally caught covid :(

NEW PAPER: I have discovered that up to half of all black holes that shred a star "burp" material years after the initial event and turn on in radio!!! No one was expecting this, and we don't really understand why this might be! 🤩🔭🧪

arxiv.org/abs/2308.13595

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Very weird to finally be holding them in my hands! Was surprisingly heavy to carry over from the library 😅

Good to be back at the climbing gym, although sorely feeling my 3 weeks away and seem to have lost most of my finger strength 😭

Sad to be leaving Finland after a really fun two weeks, but equally even more excited now to move there in just under a month to start my postdoc at University of Turku!

Sleepy me tried to unlock my laptop by typing Overleaf as my password just now - academia in a nutshell 🤣

Starting the weekend off right with some sauna and outdoor swimming