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June 30, 2017

by John Sarkissian (CASS) This week marked the 50th anniversary of the historic “Our World” broadcast. It was viewed live in 31 countries with an estimated audience of 400 million, […]

June 29, 2017

by Mark Walker & Helen Sim Gas filaments surrounding stars like the strands of a pompom may be the answer to a 30-year old mystery: why quasars twinkle. Dr Mark […]

June 28, 2017

Gravitational-wave astronomy in the age of multiple detections by Paul Lasky (Monash University) Abstract. Advanced LIGO has now observed three bona fide gravitational-wave events from the mergers of stellar-mass black […]

June 27, 2017

by Brett Hiscock (CASS) The image above shows the constellation of Orion setting in the early evening sky, with the Boolardy homestead on the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in the foreground. […]

June 26, 2017

by Phil Edwards (CASS) An international conference on The Broad Impact of Low Frequency Observing was held last week in Bologna, Italy. Over 200 participants gathered to discuss results from […]

June 23, 2017

by Robin Wark (CASS) The ATCA web cam had more than just weather conditions on the screen on Monday 5th June. There are cameras showing the current conditions at the […]

June 22, 2017

by Phil Edwards (CASS) Last week the annual SKA Engineering meeting was held in Rotterdam. The meeting provided a global overview of the status, progress and way forward for the […]

June 21, 2017

Pulsar observations with LOFAR, SKA low pathfinder by Stefan Oslowski (Swinburne University of Technology) Abstract. Pulsars are extremely versatile laboratories of physics. While in the last years most of the […]

June 20, 2017

by Phil Edwards (CASS) Last week the annual SKA Engineering meeting was held in Rotterdam. The SKA Project is now well into the pre-construction phase with 12 Consortia carrying out […]

June 19, 2017

by Phil Edwards (CASS) Last week the annual SKA Engineering meeting was held in Rotterdam. With over 300 registered participants, the meeting brought together members of the 12 consortia working […]

June 16, 2017

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science is holding the 2017 Radio Astronomy School at the Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, NSW, from Monday 25th September to Friday 29th September 2017. […]

June 15, 2017

by Phil Edwards (CASS) The six twenty-two meter diameter dishes of the Australia Telescope Compact Array spend almost all their time with all dishes looking in the same direction. 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.