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natasha-vb.bsky.social
✨ PhD candidate at Swinburne University of Technology | OzGrav 🔭 Time-domain astronomy | Hunting for kilonovae 🖤 Token workplace emo 🌙 she/her
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Spot the difference 😤🔭

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

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 🌟 🧪🔭

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 93 days ago • 479 comments

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. 🧪🔭⚛️

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

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 🌟🔭👩‍🔬

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments