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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
September 22, 2025
Exo-space weather: The impact of stellar activity and outflows on exoplanets Abstract: Activity of cool dwarf stars can reveal itself in the form of high-energy radiation (eg, enhanced X-ray coronal […]
September 19, 2025
Large-Scale Technosignatures Searches and the Stuff that Makes it Work Abstract: The search for technological life beyond Earth is a large-scale search for unidentified spectral-temporal signatures. So far, most searches for […]
September 18, 2025
The SKA Observatory has reached its first construction milestone, with the first Array Assembly, AA0.5, of the SKA-Low telescope officially delivered. The four-station AA0.5 array, each made up of 256 log-dipole […]
September 17, 2025
The Variables and Slow Transients Extragalactic survey: exploring radio transients with ASKAP Abstract: The Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey on the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is transforming our […]
September 16, 2025
The SKA Observatory has reached its first construction milestone, with the first Array Assembly, AA0.5, of the SKA-Low telescope officially delivered. The four-station array, each made up of 256 log-dipole […]
September 15, 2025
Jonghwan Rhee recently joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy at Kensington as a Research Scientist to support ASKAP spectral line surveys. He received his PhD in Astronomy from the Australian National […]
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.