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One of the ATCA fields in the Chamaeleon star-forming region observed at 5.5 GHz. The small white squares indicate locations of known young stars (from Garcia Valencia et al., 2025).

July 18, 2025

García Valencia et al. report on large-scale radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) that led to the definite detection of five […]

ASKAP RACS image of the gamma-ray emitting Giant Radio Galaxy PMN J0525-2010 (from Paliya et al. 2025).

July 17, 2025

Giant radio sources, including galaxies and quasars (hereafter GRGs), are active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosting relativistic jets with source sizes exceeding the projected length of 700 kilo-parsecs (roughly the distance […]

The temporal evolution of the topocentric Dispersion Measure toward pulsar B1937+21, measured from the Parkes UWL observations. (From Wang et al. 2025)

July 16, 2025

Wang et al. report on the broadband polarization behaviour of the millisecond pulsar B1937+21 (J1939+2134), using high-quality observations made with the ultra-wideband low (UWL) receiver on Murriyang, the Parkes radio […]

100 pulses from the Vela pulsar, observed as part of commissioning tests with the four-station SKA-Low AA0.5 array.

July 15, 2025

The Vela pulsar is one of the brightest pulsars in the Southern sky, making it a prime target for test observations with the SKA-Low AA0.5 array of four stations. Pulsars […]

Front cover of the Decadal Plan

July 14, 2025

The Australian Astronomy Decadal Plan 2026–2035, outlining the vision and priorities for Australian astronomy over the next decade, was launched last week at the Astronomical Society of Australia’s annual science […]

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)

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

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

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.

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).

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)

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.

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 […]


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.