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Presentation of the ASA IDEA chapter's Gold Pleiades award to Space and Astronomy during the 2025 ASA Annual Science Meeting. (Image credit: Sabrina Einecke)

Gold Pleiades award for CSIRO Space and Astronomy

July 11, 2025

CSIRO Space and Astronomy has received a Gold Pleiades award from the Astronomical Society of Australia’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Astronomy (IDEA) chapter. The award recognises sustained positive progress […]

ATNF Chief Scientist, Cath Trott, opens the ATNF Town Hall meeting during the 2025 ASA Annual Scientific Meeting

ATNF Town Hall at the ASA

July 10, 2025

This week’s Annual Science Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia includes plenary and parallel sessions, poster sessions, and a number of ASA Chapter and Town Hall meetings. A regular feature of […]

First slide of Ryan Shannon's talk at the 2025 ASA meeting on Fast Radio Burst detections with ASKAP

FRBs at the ASA

July 9, 2025

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia is being held this week in Adelaide. Naturally, there are number of presentations relating to observations made with ATNF telescopes, […]

Image advertising the 2025 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting.

ASA Annual Scientific Meeting

July 8, 2025

One of the principal activities of the Astronomical Society of Australia is the Annual Scientific Meeting, being held this week in Adelaide, and on-line, to bring together astronomers from around […]

The 2025 National NAIDOC Poster incorporating the Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag (licensed by the Torres Strait Island Council).

NAIDOC Week 2025

July 7, 2025

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander […]

XMM X-ray satellite light curves that overlap with the ATCA observations during a 7-day campaign. The vertical blue lines correspond to the radio flare peaks, and Flare IDs are labeled to the right of each flare. (From Tristan et al. 2025)

A 7-Day Multi-Wavelength Flare Campaign on the star AU Mic

July 4, 2025

M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the solar neighborhood, and many exhibit frequent and highly energetic flares. To better understand these events across the electromagnetic spectrum, […]

Purple spiral with a central ellipse marked out.

ATNF News June 2025

July 3, 2025

The June edition of the ATNF News was published late last month. It included updates on Murriyang gear refurbishment, ATCA BIGCAT commissioning, tips on keeping observing proposals anonymous, and a […]

De-dispersed burst detected from the defunct Realy 2 satellite with ASKAP, possibly due to Electro-Static Discharge. (From James et al. 2025)

A nanosecond-duration radio pulse from a dead satellite

July 2, 2025

James et al. report the detection of a burst of emission over a 695 MHz to 1031 MHz bandwidth with ASKAP. The burst was localised through analysis of near-field time […]

VLT/X-Shooter spectrum of the host galaxy of the ASKAP-detected FRB 20230708A, showing prominent Hα, Hβ, [O III], and [O II] emission. Best model fits for the gas emission (orange) and stellar continuum (red) are shown, with the spectral error in blue. (From Muller et al. 2025)

A faint host galaxy for an FRB

July 1, 2025

Despite almost 1000 published FRB detections to date, including ∼100 with confident host associations, FRB progenitors and their emission mechanisms are still not well understood. Muller et al. present Very Large […]

VLT/FORS2 R-band image of the host galaxy associated with the ASKAP-detected FRB 20230708A (center of image). The VLT/X-Shooter slit outline is shown in white, and the FRB localization ellipse is shown in black. (From Muller et al. 2025)

A faint host galaxy for an FRB

June 30, 2025

The transient sky is rich with a variety of phenomena that change in location and/or luminosity over timescales from milli-seconds to months. And our knowledge of the transient sky will […]

An image of Cyril Hazard taken around 1970 while visiting Cornell. Image credit: Dave Jauncey

Vale Cyril Hazard

June 27, 2025

Dr Cyril Hazard passed away on the 14th of June 2025, aged 97. As a student at of the University of Manchester, Cyril worked with Sir Bernard Lovell and Robert […]

Looking down the feedhorn of the new 1.4 GHz feed being installed on the 70m antenna DSS-43 at CDSCC. (Image credit: @CanberraDSN)

Receiver upgrade at CDSCC

June 26, 2025

DSS-43, the 70m antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) is currently off-line while a new receiver is installed. DSS-43 is primarily used to transmit signals to, and […]

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.