January 31, 2015
by Ian Heywood (CASS) and ASKAP team This image shows fifty square degrees of sky in the constellation of Tucana, as seen by the ASKAP prototype BETA at 711 – […]
January 30, 2015
by Paolo Serra (CASS) and ASKAP team In July 2014 we carried out the first multi-beam observation of extragalactic HI with ASKAP. We targeted two gas-rich, nearby spiral galaxies in […]
January 29, 2015
by Aidan Hotan (CASS) Mosaic of nine single-polarisation ASKAP beam patterns, using weights that optimise the sensitivity of the beam. Each pattern has been placed in the location reflecting its […]
January 28, 2015
by Emil Lenc (CAASTRO, SIfA, University of Sydney) Celebrating the International Year of Light 2015 we present a stunning multi-wavelength image of Pictor A , the closest powerful Fanaroff-Riley class […]
January 27, 2015
Who doesn’t know the marvellous actors in the famous movie “The Dish” , starring our 64-m Parkes Telescope ? Actor Roy Billing, the “unofficial Mayor of Parkes” was honored with […]
January 26, 2015
by Simon Johnston (CASS) Happy Australia Day ! Here is a beautiful photo of a single 12-m ASKAP dish. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) consists of 36 x […]
January 25, 2015
by Angel Lopez-Sanchez (AAO/UMQ) Beautiful photo of CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) taken by Angel Lopez-Sanchez – @El_Lobo_Rayado . Five of the six 22-m dishes are seen in one […]
January 24, 2015
MSH 11-62 (G291.1-0.9) is a composite supernova remnant for which ATCA radio and Chandra / XMM-Newton X-ray observations have identified the remnant shell as well as its central pulsar wind […]
January 23, 2015
Kerr et al. (2014) studied the emission from PSR J1717-4054 over intervals from single pulses to years using the Parkes radio telescope and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). They […]
January 22, 2015
Anderson et al. (2014) present parsec-scale interferometric maps of HCN(1-0) and HCO + (1-0) emission from dense gas in the star-forming region 30 Doradus, obtained using the Australia Telescope Compact […]
January 21, 2015
by Paolo Serra (ATNF/CASS), Tobias Westmeier (UWA/ICRAR), et al. Studying HI in galaxies can be challenging in a number of different ways. You’ll need to get your data, remove the […]
January 20, 2015
by Emily Petroff (Swinburne University) Petroff et al. (2015) present the discovery of a new fast radio burst (FRB) in real time using the Parkes Radio Telescope. For the first […]
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.