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July 30, 2018

Today sees the launch of Lisa Harvey-Smith’s book, When Galaxies Collide (Melbourne University Publishing). Prof. Brian Cox described it as “A fascinating and inspiring tour of the galaxies, illuminated by […]

July 27, 2018

The screen shot above is from a time-lapse video made by Alex Cherney of the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), with the Milky Way setting in the background. ASKAP […]

July 26, 2018

The screen shot above is from a time-lapse video made by Alex Cherney of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The fuzzy blob in the sky just left of centre is […]

July 25, 2018

by Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan (Swinburne University of Technology) Abstract: Pulsars in relativistic binary systems are natural laboratories to understand the gravitational dynamics near strongly gravitating bodies. PSR J1141-6545 is a […]

July 24, 2018

In April 1991 a Space VLBI Work Week was held at Marsfield to discuss planning for the RadioAstron and VSOP missions, both of which were expected to launch within the […]

July 20, 2018

As was apparent from last Wednesday’s ADAP, Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell is currently visiting Australia. While the main purpose of her visit was to give the keynote John Bolton Lecture at […]

July 19, 2018

As part of the ongoing development of the long running PULSE@Parkes education programme, a new 3-D virtualisation of the iconic CSIRO Parkes 64m Radio Telescope has been developed, including the […]

July 18, 2018

by Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell FRS (University of Oxford) Abstract: I will describe the discovery of pulsars from the point of view of the graduate student involved, in the contexts of […]

July 17, 2018

It has become customary to hold an ATNF Town Hall meeting at the annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia, and this year’s meeting at Swinburne was no exception. […]

July 16, 2018

The annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia was held recently at Swinburne University. With around 300 participants, the 2018 annual meeting was the largest ever of the Society, […]

July 13, 2018

The Mopra 22m radio telescope is located near Coonabarabran and the Siding Spring Observatory. Although no longer offered as a National Facility telescope, the telescope continues to be used by […]

July 12, 2018

The Mopra 22m radio telescope is located near Coonabarabran and the Siding Spring Observatory. Although no longer offered as a National Facility telescope, the telescope continues to be used 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.