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The Stanford meeting room for the JohnFest -- honouring John Dickey's contributions to astronomy.

February 17, 2025

Last week was JohnFest — Structure and Polarisation in the Interstellar Medium — a conference in honour of John Dickey. Around 25 attendees were welcomed to ATNF in Sydney, including […]

Profile and dynamic spectrum of the Fast Radio Burst FRB 20230708A (from Dial et al. 2025)

February 14, 2025

There has been a rapid increase in the known fast radio burst (FRB) population, yet the progenitor(s) of these events have remained an enigma. A small number of FRBs have […]

Dick Manchester at the Parkes telescope control desk in 1968

February 13, 2025

Yesterday’s colloquium was given by Dick Manchester, who commenced his career within CSIRO as a post-doc at Parkes in 1968. The image above shows Dick sitting at the control desk […]

Australia's first $50 note, showing pulses from CP1919 recorded at Parkes.

February 12, 2025

55 Years of Pulsar Research Dick Manchester (CSIRO) Abstract: I commenced as a post-doc at Parkes on February 12, 1968, just 12 days before the Hewish et al. publication of […]

ATCA lightcurve of SN2001ig, showing a dramatic rebrightening around 4000 days after the supernova (from Soria et al. 2025)

February 11, 2025

Soria et al. study the late-time evolution of the compact Type IIb supernova SN 2001ig in the spiral galaxy NGC 7424, with new and unpublished archival data from the ATCA […]

The 1.7 to 3.0 GHz feed horn built by CSIRO for Project Phoenix.

February 10, 2025

Project Phoenix was a dedicated Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) made over a number of years with radio-telescopes around the world. The project, which ran at Parkes for 16 weeks, is […]

2024/25 Vacation Students based at the Marsfield site

February 7, 2025

The CSIRO Space & Astronomy Vacation Scholarship Program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to work on a research project under the supervision of a CSIRO Space & Astronomy staff member. The […]

The 2024/25 Vacation Students based at Kensington

February 6, 2025

The CSIRO Space & Astronomy Vacation Scholarship Program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to work on a research project under the supervision of a CSIRO Space & Astronomy staff member. In […]

Vacation Students visiting the Parkes Observatory in 2004 (Image credit: CRAIA)

February 5, 2025

The CSIRO Space & Astronomy Vacation Scholarship Program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to work on a research project under the supervision of a CSIRO Space & Astronomy staff […]

February 4, 2025

Project Phoenix was a Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program that made use of several of the world’s largest radio telescopes to search for techno-signatures from around 800 stars relatively […]

Robyn Williams, Jill Tarter, Ron Ekers and Marcus Price at Parkes for an event promoting Project Phoenix (Image credit: CRAIA)

February 3, 2025

In 1992, NASA began an ambitious decade-long, US$100 million Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). However, just one year later, the United States Congress cut all funding for the program because […]

Images of the bent-lobe radio galaxy PKS J0816-7039 from the RACS-high (left), RACS-mid (middle) and RACS-Low (right) surveys. (From Duchesne et al. 2025.)

January 31, 2025

Duchesne et al. describe the third major epoch of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) at 1655.5 MHz, “RACS-high”, and the subsequent imaging and catalogue data release. From the 1493 […]


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.