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November 30, 2015

by Marcella Massardi (INAF, Italy) The Planck-ATCA Co-eval Observations (PACO) project (Massardi et al. 2015, MNRAS, in press) has yielded observations of 464 sources with the Australia Telescope Compact Array […]

November 29, 2015

by Flornes Yuen (CASS) Last night we had “An evening with Buzz Aldrin: Mission to Mars” in Sydney, where CSIRO astronomer Lisa Harvery-Smith spoke as the warmup act before Buzz […]

November 28, 2015

by Simon Johnston (CASS) This figure from Champion et al. shows 5 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) discovered using the Parkes radio telescope as part of the HTRU survey. FRB 121002 […]

November 27, 2015

by Ann Mao (MPIfR Bonn, Germany) ATCA remote observing from the Science Operations Center at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) in Sydney. The photo shows Ann Mao, visiting from […]

November 26, 2015

by Simon Johnston (CASS) Brook et al. (2015) show that the profiles of radio pulsars can change with time and that this change is accompanied by changes in the spin-down […]

November 25, 2015

by Eva Ntormousi (Saclay, France) Abstract. The interstellar medium is threaded by a complex network of molecular filaments which range from low-density, relatively diffuse structures to dense, star-forming regions. The […]

November 24, 2015

by Martin Bell (CASS) Welcoming our cohort of summer students for 2015. We have 12 students plus two indigenous cadets that are working on a broad range of projects in […]

November 23, 2015

Featured recently in the CSIRO Blog are eight examples of Australia – China collaboration successes (article by Felicity Kelly and Larissa Cordner, 20 Nov 2015) in collaboration with the Chinese […]

November 22, 2015

A recent CSIRO press release, “Secrets of the dark proteome” , features work by Sean O’Donoghue, a data visualisation scientist with CSIRO and the Garvan Institute, and his collaborators on […]

November 18, 2015

by Karen Lee-Waddell (CASS) Many galaxies reside in group environments where tidal interactions dominate the dynamics of the contained members. Gaseous material pulled from initial close encounters between galaxies can […]

November 15, 2015

Xinping Deng is a new postdoctoral fellow at ATNF. He will spend one year with us in Australia and then two years at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIFR) in […]

November 14, 2015

by Lee Spitler (UMacquarie/AAO) Pictured is Lee Spitler (right), co-PI of the Huntsman project , and Juan Madrid (left), new member of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) and the […]


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.