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August 31, 2018

It was an unusually wet and chilly day for our special guests at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory on Wednesday. Here’s the group at the Murchison Widefield Array (a low frequency […]

August 30, 2018

Tremou et al. present the results of an ultra-deep, comprehensive radio continuum survey for the accretion signatures of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in globular clusters. The sample, undertaken with the […]

August 29, 2018

The Torpedo cluster, SPT-CL J0245–5302, is a massive, merging cluster at a redshift of z = 0.300, with a classic bow shock in the cluster’s intra-cluster medium revealed by Chandra […]

August 28, 2018

Water Fountain nebulae are low- to intermediate-mass stars undergoing the late stages of an intense mass-loss process. The velocity and the spatial distribution of water maser spectral features can provide […]

August 27, 2018

Ambassador Dr Brendon Hammer of the Australian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the United Nations visited the Australian Astronomy booth at the International Astronomical Union’s General Assembly currently underway in […]

August 24, 2018

The above image of Parkes is from a Collection of posters on New South Wales Tourist attractions held by the National Library of Australia and shows The Dish in the […]

August 23, 2018

Bhandari et al. have conduced a pilot survey for variable and transient sources at 1.4 GHz on the timescale of days with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). The […]

August 22, 2018

Since its astronomical discovery in 1970, the carbon monoxide (CO) molecule has been utilised as a key tracer of molecular gas in the Galaxy. Second in numerical abundance only to […]

August 21, 2018

The image above, taken from this 1970 video , shows the control building of what was the Culgoora Radioheliograph and is now the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The building was […]

August 20, 2018

Oslowski et al. are observing the millisecond pulsar J1933-6211 using the newly deployed Ultra Wideband Low (UWL) receiver and are hoping to measure the mass and determine the orbit of […]

August 17, 2018

One year ago today, on August 17, 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors observed the first detected neutron star merger, GW170817. Seconds later a burst of gamma-rays was detected […]

August 16, 2018

The Parker Solar Probe was launched last weekend and has commenced its seven year journey to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 9 solar […]


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.