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October 31, 2018

Astronomers have witnessed evidence for the slow death of a neighbouring dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is gradually losing its power to form stars. High resolution images made […]

October 30, 2018

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright bursts of radio emission that only last for a millisecond. This makes them extremely difficult to detect and even more challenging to pinpoint exactly […]

October 29, 2018

An international team of astronomers have discovered the slowest-spinning radio pulsar yet known – the neutron star spins around only once every 23.5 seconds. This is over 15,000 times slower […]

October 26, 2018

ATNF marked the ending of an era yesterday with a farewell for Robin Wark, who has provided observer support for ATNF facilities for the last 34 years. Joining CSIRO at […]

October 25, 2018

Today is the second day of a two-day ASKAP Community Workshop being held at CASS’s Marsfield site. The workshop will review progress through the Early Science program and help facilitate […]

October 24, 2018

Today is the first day of a two-day ASKAP Community Workshop being held at CASS’s Marsfield site. The workshop will review progress through the Early Science program and help facilitate […]

October 23, 2018

by Fernando Camilo (SARAO) Abstract: After more than a decade in the making, the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescope was inaugurated in July 2018 and is now […]

October 22, 2018

Marsfield staff gathered on Friday to farewell Lisa Harvey-Smith and congratulate her on her appointment as Australia’s first Women in STEM Ambassador . Lisa joined CSIRO nine years ago, and […]

October 19, 2018

As noted in yesterday’s ADAP, Cricket Australia last week launched its new junior development program, Cricket Blast, at the Parkes Observatory. The kids played cricket with The Dish in the […]

October 18, 2018

Last week, Cricket Australia launched its new junior development program, Cricket Blast, at the Parkes Observatory. The event featured dozens of kids and a number Big Bash League players: Chris […]

October 17, 2018

by Justin Bray (University of Manchester) Abstract: Recent work with LOFAR has shown that aperture-array radio telescopes are highly effective at measuring the radio footprint from a cosmic ray interacting […]

October 16, 2018

During the CASS Executive visit to the Parkes Observatory yesterday, some new signage was spotted on the exterior of one of the buildings on site. As previously documented , wildlife […]


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.