SKAO Annual Report 2024
October 9, 2025
The SKA Observatory’s 2024 Annual Report is now available, covering a memorable year with the start of deployment of antennas on the SKA telescope sites in Australia and South Africa. […]
ATNF Colloquium — Natasha Bosanac (University of Colorado Boulder)
October 8, 2025
Advancing Spacecraft Trajectory Design, Analysis, and Prediction within Multi-Body Systems Abstract: Our future in space involves miniaturized satellites for low-cost and rapid access to space, autonomously navigating spacecraft, on-orbit servicing […]
BIGCAT Science Commissioning
October 7, 2025
BIGCAT is the new GPU-based correlator for ATCA. After installation and engineering commissioning finished, science commissioning began in August, with a team of astronomers putting the telescope through its paces. As […]
BIGCAT Science Commissioning
October 3, 2025
BIGCAT is the new GPU-based correlator for ATCA. After installation and engineering commissioning finished, science commissioning began in August, with a team of astronomers putting the telescope through its paces. […]
Issue 18 of Contact
October 2, 2025
Issue 18 of Contact, the SKAO magazine, has just been published. In addition to progress reports on construction activities for SKA_Low and SKA-Mid, this issue considers the impact that SKA […]
ATNF Colloquium — Taïssa Danilovich (Monash)
October 1, 2025
The effect of evolved star binaries on circumstellar astrochemistry and dust formation Abstract: Low- and intermediate-mass stars disgorge their outer layers during the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) phase, one of […]
PHISCC 2025
September 30, 2025
The 15th workshop of the Pathfinder HI Survey Coordination Committee (PHISCC) was held last week in Cagliari, Sardinia, with good representation from members of the ASKAP spectral-line survey teams and […]
International Astronautical Congress 2025 Sydney
September 29, 2025
This week the annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is being held in Sydney, organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Founded in 1951, the International Astronautical Federation is the world’s […]
ATNF Colloquium — Ravi Subrahmanyan (CSIRO)
September 26, 2025
Radio discovery of Cosmic Dawn Abstract: As First Light from the First Stars transforms the universe from Dark Ages into Cosmic Dawn, the thermal history may be traced in redshifted […]
Possible Super-Eddington Accretion in a Radio-loud Quasar at z = 6.13
September 25, 2025
Ighina et al. present radio and X-ray observations of the recently discovered high-redshift (z=6.13) radio-powerful quasar RACS J032021.44-352104.1, using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array, […]
ATNF Colloquium — Emma Carli (Swinburne University)
September 24, 2025
Are neutron stars outside our galaxy any different? Abstract: The TRAPUM (TRAnsients and PUlsars with MeerKAT) collaboration has so far doubled the extragalactic radio pulsar population with a survey of nearby […]
The Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS)
September 23, 2025
Barnes et al. have just published Data Release 6 of The Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS). The Data Release consists of complete data cubes and various moments of […]
Welcome to the ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture (ADAP), brought to you by staff and users of the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Our aim is to present science and engineering results, research highlights from recent publications, technical updates, telescope pictures, conference summaries, etc.
Our site was inspired by the fabulous Astronomy Picture of the Day – @APOD and the ASTRON/Jive Daily Image – @dailyimage.
We welcome all ATNF users to submit an image related to our facilities (Parkes, ATCA, Mopra, ASKAP and LBA), together with a brief description and credits. Submissions can be emailed to the ADAP curator, (phil.edwards [at] csiro.au).
The ADAP was created in December 2014 by Baerbel Koribalski and Simon Johnston. Over 2500 ADAPs have now been published. Vince McIntyre, Nathan Pope, and Andrew O’Brien are acknowledged for their dedicated technical support. The ADAP is currently curated by Phil Edwards.