July 29, 2016
by Phil Edwards (CASS) White dwarfs are compact stars, similar in size to Earth but approximately 200,000 times more massive. Isolated white dwarfs emit most of their power from ultraviolet […]
July 28, 2016
by Shi Dai (CASS) Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both […]
July 27, 2016
by Minnie Mao (Manchester University) Abstract. In the local Universe, large-scale double-lobed radio sources are almost always hosted by elliptical galaxies. This is consistent with leading galaxy formation models that […]
July 26, 2016
Chequerboard Phased-Array Feed (PAF) installation at the Australian SkA Pathfinder (ASKAP) thanks to our amazing team of engineers, technicians, and wonderful support staff. Wide-field 21-cm images from ASKAP-12 with all […]
July 25, 2016
Over 100 participants from 20 countries and six continents attended the IAU Symposium 322 on “The multi-messenger astrophysics of the Galactic Centre”. Talks and posters will be published in the […]
July 22, 2016
It was one giant leap for mankind, and it was taken at 12.56 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on Monday 21 July 1969. Six hundred million people, or one […]
July 21, 2016
by Ashley Barnes (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) The central few hundred parsecs of the Milky Way contains the majority of the Galaxy’s dense molecular gas. The conditions within this […]
July 20, 2016
by Karl Warnick (Brigham Young University, USA) Abstract. Aperture phased arrays and phased array feeds (PAFs) are a promising technology for sensing and communications applications requiring electronic beamsteering and large […]
July 19, 2016
by Haihua Qiao (ICRAR/Curtin University) This is the preliminary result of OH masers in the Galactic Centre region as obtained with CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The top panel […]
July 18, 2016
The IAU Symposium 322 on “Multi-Messenger Astrophysics of the Galactic Centre” starts today in rainy Cairns. The picture above is from Ott et al (2014) and shows the ATCA survey […]
July 15, 2016
Flo has been with us for six eventful years, from the deployment of the first ASKAP antenna, throughout the array construction, systems and science commissioning with the Boolardy Engineering Test […]
July 14, 2016
Photo by Pete Wheeler (UWA/ICRAR) An amazing collection of images from the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO), the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), Phased-Array Feeds (PAFs) and more is now available as […]
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.