Natasha Van Bemmel
@natasha-vb.bsky.social
✨ PhD candidate at Swinburne University of Technology | OzGrav
🔭 Time-domain astronomy | Hunting for kilonovae
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Hello!
My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩🔬
My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩🔬
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Astronomy on Tap is coming soon to Melbourne ✨
Come along to learn about astronomy, current research, and have some drinks doing so!
#AstroOnTap
Come along to learn about astronomy, current research, and have some drinks doing so!
#AstroOnTap
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Astronomy on Tap is coming soon to Melbourne ✨
Come along to learn about astronomy, current research, and have some drinks doing so!
#AstroOnTap
Come along to learn about astronomy, current research, and have some drinks doing so!
#AstroOnTap
In the midst of the madness of submitting my PhD thesis last week, I also submitted my 2nd paper which is now out on arXiv!
Check it out to learn about a rare ultra fast dwarf nova we discovered with KNTraP ✨
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26682
#astronomy 🔭
Check it out to learn about a rare ultra fast dwarf nova we discovered with KNTraP ✨
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26682
#astronomy 🔭
An extremely fast fading population II dwarf nova candidate: caught spectroscopically on the rise
We present AT2022kak, a rapidly evolving optical transient discovered by the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP). This interesting burst exhibited extremely fast evolution, with a large amplitude...
arxiv.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
In the midst of the madness of submitting my PhD thesis last week, I also submitted my 2nd paper which is now out on arXiv!
Check it out to learn about a rare ultra fast dwarf nova we discovered with KNTraP ✨
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26682
#astronomy 🔭
Check it out to learn about a rare ultra fast dwarf nova we discovered with KNTraP ✨
arxiv.org/abs/2510.26682
#astronomy 🔭
Genuinely unreal to have my first paper recognised like this - thank you to the editorial board for considering my work! ✨
🎉Congratulations to co-winners: Jesús Carrillo-Santamaría, Ignas Juodžbalis, Konstantinos Kilmetis, Dávid Puskás, Natasha Van Bemmel, and Hanyuan Zhang! 🎉
Find out more about the winning papers in the thread below with quotes from members of the Editorial Board.
Find out more about the winning papers in the thread below with quotes from members of the Editorial Board.
July 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Genuinely unreal to have my first paper recognised like this - thank you to the editorial board for considering my work! ✨
Reposted by Natasha Van Bemmel
Spot the difference 😤🔭
February 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Spot the difference 😤🔭
Reposted by Natasha Van Bemmel
With a lot of tough things happening in the world riggr now, the misinformation that stars are dead when you wish on them feels very mean spirited 🥺 luckily, I looked into it and worked out that the stars we wish on are very much alive 🌟 🧪🔭
The stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think.
www.space.com/the-universe...
www.space.com/the-universe...
When you wish upon a star, is it already dead? An astronomer crunches the numbers
The stars we can see in the night sky are a lot closer and live a lot longer than you would think.
www.space.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
With a lot of tough things happening in the world riggr now, the misinformation that stars are dead when you wish on them feels very mean spirited 🥺 luckily, I looked into it and worked out that the stars we wish on are very much alive 🌟 🧪🔭
My first first-author paper just dropped on arXiv ✨👩🔬🧪🔭
Introducing the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP), a search specifically designed to find a kilonova. Check it out here to see the methods developed to scour the data for kilonova candidates, and what we found:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16136
Introducing the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP), a search specifically designed to find a kilonova. Check it out here to see the methods developed to scour the data for kilonova candidates, and what we found:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16136
November 26, 2024 at 11:01 PM
My first first-author paper just dropped on arXiv ✨👩🔬🧪🔭
Introducing the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP), a search specifically designed to find a kilonova. Check it out here to see the methods developed to scour the data for kilonova candidates, and what we found:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16136
Introducing the KiloNova and Transients Program (KNTraP), a search specifically designed to find a kilonova. Check it out here to see the methods developed to scour the data for kilonova candidates, and what we found:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16136
Reposted by Natasha Van Bemmel
Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont...
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
Reposted by Natasha Van Bemmel
Don't mind me. Just illustrating a text on the river model for black holes. Some fish swimming at the "speed of fish", in a river whose flow speed gets faster from right to left. H is the "river horizon". An external observer will never see a fish that is to the left of H swim to the right. 🧪🔭⚛️
November 22, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Don't mind me. Just illustrating a text on the river model for black holes. Some fish swimming at the "speed of fish", in a river whose flow speed gets faster from right to left. H is the "river horizon". An external observer will never see a fish that is to the left of H swim to the right. 🧪🔭⚛️
Hello!
My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩🔬
My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩🔬
November 22, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Hello!
My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩🔬
My name is Natasha and I’m an astrophysics PhD candidate. I work with data from optical telescopes to search for fast evolving explosions in the sky 💥 On the lookout for the strange and unusual, but mainly I’m searching for kilonovae 🌟🔭👩🔬