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Image for ATNF Colloquium 27 May 2026 by Lindsey Oberhelman

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 […]

Light curve showing periodic ASKAP detections of the X-ray Binary A0538–66. From Crook-Mansour et al. 2026

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 winners for 2025/2026, Kyra Kummer (University of Cape Town) and Tim Galvin (CSIRO). Image credit: https://idia.ac.jp/

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 […]

Members of the ASKAP FLASH team at the FLASH Splash, May 2026.

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 […]

Cupcakes for the FLASH Splash celebrations, May 2026

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. […]

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

A selection of FLASH HI absorption line detections. Each line has been shifted to the centre and ordered by redshift covering look-back times from 4 to 8 billion years ago.

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 […]

Sunrise at the Hobart 26m telescope during a Long Baseline Array observing session. (Image credit: Lucas Hyland)

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 […]

The Australia Telescope Steering Committee at Narrabri for their May 2026 meeting. (Image credit: Shaun Amy)

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 […]

John Bunton staff photo from August 1992. Image credit: CRAIA

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 […]

May 13, 2026

Shocks, polarisation, and high-energy emission: Probing black hole jets from VLBI to IXPE Pinpointing the origin of the recent gamma ray flare in 3C84 Abstract Relativistic jets launched by accreting […]

The the spatial distribution of the 344 sightlines with candidate absorption detections at Magellanic velocities. Each candidate is coloured by its signal-to-noise ratio, with darker colours reflecting a higher ratio. The background map is the HI column density from the GASS survey. The survey coverage is shown by the heavy black contour. The LMC is on the left, the SMC on the right, with the Magellanic Bridge connecting the two. From Dempsey et al. 2026

May 12, 2026

Neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) is the most abundant component of the interstellar medium (ISM). It traces both large- and small-scale structures in galaxies. HI is found in two long-lasting phases, […]


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.

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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.