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November 30, 2018

The image above shows the surface density of globular clusters in the central regions of the Coma cluster. This heat map defines three main overdensities of globular clusters in Coma. […]

November 29, 2018

Last week the Australia Telescope Users Committee (ATUC) met at Marsfield. ATUC is a group of ten scientists who represent the users of the Australia Telescope National Facility. This committee […]

November 28, 2018

by Jordan Collier (University of Cape Town) Abstract: A new kind of clock started when the South African president inaugurated MeerKAT during July 2018, and the public considered the telescope […]

November 27, 2018

Banfield et al. present a polarization and Faraday rotation study of the hybrid morphology radio galaxy NGC 612 (PKS 0131-36), using Australian Telescope Compact Array observations in the 1–3 GHz […]

November 26, 2018

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has released the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from orbit by NovaSAR-1, a technology demonstration mission that was launched into a 580km sun-synchronous […]

November 23, 2018

A team of scientists have found a binary star system in our Galaxy – about 8000 light years from Earth – comprising a pair of luminous Wolf-Rayet stars, one of […]

November 22, 2018

The Australia Telescope National Facility Annual Report for 2017/18 is now available on-line. Until 2016, Annual Reports were based on the calendar year: from 2017/18 the Reports are based on […]

November 21, 2018

The plot above represents the first fully calibrated results from National Facility scheduled observing time with the Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver at Parkes. The observations were made last week, on […]

November 20, 2018

Reynolds et al. have presented Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY) early science results from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) observations of the NGC 7162 galaxy […]

November 19, 2018

McCarthy et al. have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to conduct observations of the 36.2 GHz methanol transition towards the nearby active galaxy NGC 4945. These observations have […]

November 16, 2018

Sokolowski et al. have presented the results of a coordinated campaign conducted with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) to shadow fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Australian Square Kilometre […]

November 15, 2018

Pitts et al. have recently presented multi-wavelength data on the globally infalling molecular cloud/protostellar cluster BYF 73. These include new far-IR spectral line and continuum data from SOFIA’s Far Infrared […]


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.