50th Anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission
April 14, 2020
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, with crew members Jim Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise. The dramatic events of the mission are re-told by […]
A hidden pulsar and a black hole candidate in NGC 6397 – by Zhao et al.
April 9, 2020
Zhao et al. have used a 16 hr ATCA observation together with archival Chandra X-ray data to find radio counterparts to new and known X-ray sources in the Galactic globular […]
Evidence for Auroral Radio Emission from the magnetic star ρ Oph A – by Leto et al.
April 8, 2020
Leto et al. have described ATCA measurements over the frequency range 2.1–21.2 GHz of the magnetic star ρ Oph A. The detection of two highly polarized pulses at 2.1 GHz […]
Evidence for Auroral Radio Emission from the magnetic star ρ Oph A – by Leto et al.
April 7, 2020
Stars like our Sun possess a magnetic field, and produce a solar wind of high energy particles, but are not intrinsically bright sources at radio wavelengths. However, certain classes of […]
Breakthough Listen Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars – by Price et al.
April 6, 2020
Breakthrough Listen (BL) is a ten-year initiative to search for signatures of technologically capable life beyond Earth via radio and optical observations of the local Universe. A core part of […]
The Southern Cross, and radome covers!
April 3, 2020
The screen shot above is (like Tuesday’s ADAP) another from a time-lapse video by Alex Cherney of the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The Milky Way runs vertically through the centre […]
New radome covers for the ATCA – by Jamie Stevens
April 2, 2020
Can you spot the difference between these two ATCA antennas? The observatory has recently discovered that our 30-year old Goretex radome covers are leaking water and delaminating, making it easier […]
SKA calendar for April
April 1, 2020
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) calendar for 2020 celebrates the SKA family of pathfinder telescopes. April focuses on FAST (the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope), the world’s largest and most sensitive […]
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.