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January 29, 2016

Photo by Sarah Pearce (CASS) This week the SKA intergovernmental negotiations are held in Rome. The Australian negotiating team includes Sarah Pearce from CASS. In Australia, the the ANZSCC Science […]

January 28, 2016

by Juan Madrid (CASS) Earlier this month, Alex Gagliano presented a poster at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Orlando, Florida. The poster showed the results of a study […]

January 27, 2016

by Martin Bell (CASS) CSIRO summer vacation students visited the Australia Telescope Compact Array for a 24 hour observing campaign. The purpose of the visit was to tackle some non-traditional […]

January 26, 2016

by Sarah Reeves (University of Sydney) Reeves et al. (2016) present the detection of a new intervening HI absorption-line in the galaxy NGC 5156. The detection was made as part […]

January 25, 2016

by Rajan Chhetri (UNSW) The AT20G high frequency survey selects a very high fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) compared to surveys at lower frequencies. The 6-km interferometer visibility using […]

January 23, 2016

by Keith Bannister (CASS) These two panels show the multi-frequency light curve (top) and corresponding dynamic spectrum (bottom) of an Extreme Scattering Event, detected by the ATCA in 2014, and […]

January 22, 2016

Invisible structures shaped like noodles, lasagne sheets or hazelnuts could be floating around in our Galaxy radically challenging our understanding of gas conditions in the Milky Way. CSIRO astronomer and […]

January 21, 2016

Stephen Ord started at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science on the 4th of January 2016, coming to us from Perth’s Curtin University. He he come from working on the Murchison […]

January 20, 2016

by Bjorn Emonts (Centro de Astrobiologia, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain) Abstract: I will present ATCA result from a survey for cold molecular CO(1-0) gas in proto-cluster radio galaxies at z ~ […]

January 19, 2016

by Fatemeh Tabatabaei (IAC, Spain) Abstract. The origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields as well as the influence of the magnetic fields on the evolution of galaxies are unknown. […]

January 18, 2016

by Scott Meyer (ICRAR, UWA) Abstract. Meyer et al. (2016) present a new technique for the statistical evaluation of the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) using spectral line stacking. This technique has […]

January 15, 2016

by Karlie and Dale ( DK Photography ) The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), located west of Narrabri in rural NSW, has an array of six 22m antennas, operated by […]


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.