Vale Bruce MacA Thomas
March 20, 2018
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Bruce MacA Thomas last month. Bruce MacAulay Thomas was born in Melbourne in 1937, and graduated from the University of Melbourne […]
High-resolution Observations of Low-luminosity Sources
March 19, 2018
Using high angular-resolution observations with the Long Baseline Array, Collier et al. have detected six low luminosity objects thought to be young radio galaxies. Referred to as Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) […]
Return to Potts Hill
March 16, 2018
by Harry Wendt Campbell Wade came to Australia in December 1957 after completing his PhD at Harvard, on a Research Fellowship with Radiophysics that Joe Pawsey and Bark Bok were […]
Welcome Shivani Bhandari
March 15, 2018
Shivani has joined us from Swinburne University after recently submitting her thesis on The study of slow and fast radio transients . She will be working as a post-doctoral fellow […]
ATNF Colloquium – A Deeper View of the Universe Near and Far with the MWA
March 14, 2018
by Nick Seymour (Curtin) Abstract. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a powerful low-frequency pathfinder to the Square Kilometre Array located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observtory in Western Australia. Its […]
Breakthrough Listen detection of a Fast Radio Burst
March 13, 2018
The Breakthrough Listen team recently reported the discovery of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) during a Parkes observing run. The burst was detected 2018 March 1 with the Parkes 21-cm […]
CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP) passes 1 Petabyte milestone
March 12, 2018
by Sue Cook (CSIRO IM&T) Last week the CSIRO Data Access Portal (DAP) passed the 1 petabyte (PB) mark. This means that it now holds over 1 PB of CSIRO […]
International Women’s Day at Marsfield
March 9, 2018
Yesterday’s International Women’s Day was celebrated at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science’s Marsfield site with a presentation by Cathy Foley, Deputy and Science Director of CSIRO Manufacturing, followed by a […]
International Women’s Day
March 8, 2018
Today is International Women’s Day! March 8th was adopted for International Women’s Day by the United Nations in 1975, but was recognised in some countries long before then, including Russia, […]
The foundations of radio astronomy…
March 7, 2018
Following the book launch of the Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy last month, a tour was arranged to the Potts Hill reservoir site, which hosted a number of radio telescopes […]
Potts Hill tour
March 6, 2018
Following the book launch of Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy last month, a tour was arranged to the Potts Hill reservoir site, which hosted a number of radio telescopes between […]
Marsfield wildlife
March 5, 2018
Wildlife is not uncommon at the CASS observatory sites, as documented in previous previous ADAPs, including a bungarra at the MRO , kangaroos , more kangaroos , and a wild […]
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.