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December 24, 2018

CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope played a critical role in sharing the first images of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969. In 2019 we will be helping our partner, […]

December 21, 2018

The CASS Vacation Student program is underway, with students hosted at Kensington, Marsfield and Tidbinbilla this year. Having featured the Kensington and Marsfield students in previous ADAPs it is only […]

December 20, 2018

The CASS Vacation Student program is underway, with students hosted at Kensington, Marsfield and Tidbinbilla this year. An ADAP last week showed the Kensington students at their site Christmas Party, […]

December 19, 2018

by Xiang Zhang (CASS) Abstract: When meteors pass through the atmosphere, they are heated to ablation and create ionized trails. These trails are long known to reflect radio signals, but […]

December 18, 2018

Massive OB-type stars ionize the gas surrounding them, creating H II regions. Since these nebulae have short lifetimes (~10 Myr) they are the locations of current high-mass star formation in […]

December 17, 2018

Last week it was announced that CSIRO will be taking on the maintenance and operational support for the ESA’s New Norcia tracking station. The facility at New Norcia, 130km north-east […]

December 14, 2018

As noted in yesterday’s ADAP, NASA announced earlier this week that Voyager 2 has left the solar system and entered interstellar space, only the second spacecraft, after Voyager 1, to […]

December 13, 2018

NASA announced at the American Geophysical Union meeting this week that the Voyager 2, launched in 1977, has left the solar system and entered interstellar space. Voyager 2 is about […]

December 12, 2018

by Jennifer West (Dunlap Institute) Abstract: The origin and 3D structure of magnetic fields on galactic scales is an unsolved mystery. Leading theoretical models of large-scale galactic magnetic fields come […]

December 11, 2018

The annual CASS Vacation Student program is underway, with students hosted at Kensington, Marsfield and Tidbinbilla this year. As illustrated above, the Kensington students met the challenge of dressing up […]

December 10, 2018

Last week the OzGrav Centre of Excellence held their Annual Retreat, which was preceded by the annoucement from the LIGO and Virgo consortia of the detection of four black hole […]

December 7, 2018

A large international team, including current and former CASS staff, has issued the first data release from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). LoTSS is a sensitive, high-resolution 120-168 MHz […]


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.