“That’s not an equation”
May 29, 2026
Lorentz violation (or Lorentz invariance violation) is the hypothetical idea that the fundamental laws of physics can change depending on orientation or speed. It breaks a core pillar of Einstein’s […]
National Reconciliation Week 2026
May 28, 2026
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is celebrated across Australia every year between 27 May and 3 June. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey — the anniversaries of […]
ATNF Colloquium — Lindsey Oberhelman (ANU)
May 27, 2026
The turbulent magnetic Milky Way, deriving a turbulent field scale height from POSSUM data Abstract: Using broadband polarimetric observations from the ASKAP POSSUM survey, I investigate the turbulent magnetised interstellar […]
ASKAP Detection of a Counterpart to the X-ray Binary A0538–66
May 26, 2026
X-ray binaries (XRBs) are bright X-ray sources in which a compact object – either a neutron star (NS) or black hole (BH) – accretes matter from a stellar binary companion […]
CARTA Image Competition for 2025/2026
May 25, 2026
The winners of the CARTA Image Competition for 2025/2026 were announced last week: Kyra Kummer (University of Cape Town) and Tim Galvin (CSIRO). CARTA (Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for […]
FLASH Splash
May 22, 2026
The First Large Absorption line Survey in HI (FLASH) is a wide-area survey using ASKAP to search for the 21cm neutral hydrogen (HI) line in absorption against background radio continuum sources. FLASH […]
FLASH Splash
May 21, 2026
The First Large Absorption line Survey in HI (FLASH) is a wide-areasurvey using ASKAP to search for the 21cm neutral hydrogen (HI) line in absorption against background radio continuum sources. […]
ATNF Colloquium — Xiaohui Sun (Yunnan University)
May 20, 2026
Study of Galactic multi-scale magnetic field with radio polarization observation Diffuse polarized emission at 200 MHz obtained from MWA observations for a sky area of Dec
FLASH Splash
May 19, 2026
The First Large Absorption line Survey in HI (FLASH) is a wide-area survey using ASKAP to search for the 21cm neutral hydrogen (HI) line in absorption against background radio continuum […]
Long Baseline Array observing
May 18, 2026
The Long Baseline Array is a collaboration between CSIRO, the University of Tasmania, SpaceOps NZ, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and CDSCC. Telescopes from these institutions simultaneously observe the […]
Australia Telescope Steering Committee
May 15, 2026
The Australia Telescope Steering Committe (ATSC) is an independent committee that shapes ATNF policy and is appointed by the CSIRO Board. The ATSC meets at least once a year to advise […]
Vale John Bunton
May 14, 2026
We were saddened to learn that John Bunton passed away late last week. John joined the CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory in 1989 after six years at the Fleurs Radio Observatory. Over the course […]
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.