STANSW Life Membership awarded to Rob Hollow
March 24, 2020
The CASS Education and Outreach Officer Rob Hollow has been made a Life Member of the Science Teachers’ Association of New South Wales (STANSW). Rob is one of just 14 […]
Radio and X-ray monitoring of an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar in outburst – by Gusinskaia et al.
March 23, 2020
In August, the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) Xray and gamma-ray telescope discovered a new transient, IGR J17591−2342. The high absorption seen in the X-ray spectrum suggested the source is […]
ASKAP Update for March (featuring WALLABY Hydra Cluster observations)
March 20, 2020
The ASKAP Update for March is now available. In addition to news on Pilot Survey observations, ASKAP System Development, and Digital System testing, the above image from the WALLABY Pilot […]
Long Baseline Array observing
March 19, 2020
The angular resolution of a telescope improves with the diameter of the dish, or with the spacing between elements of the array. The technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry uses […]
Antennas and animals, again
March 18, 2020
Last Friday’s ADAP showed a camel in front of an ASKAP antenna, and today’s continues the theme of antennas and animals with an archival image of the Canberra Deep Space […]
ATNF Science Retreat
March 17, 2020
Following Bolton Symposium last week, members of the ATNF Science Team spent two days at the Perth Zoo for a Retreat. The geographically diverse nature of the team means it […]
Bolton Symposium
March 16, 2020
The 2020 Bolton Symposium was held last week at CSIRO’s Kensington site in Perth. The morning was devoted to short research summary talks, with Early Career Researchers given 3~5 minutes […]
Camels captured (on camera) at the MRO
March 13, 2020
ADAPs have previously highlighted emus at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory , and a bungarra (or sand monitor) , and another strolling past the AAVS (Aperture Array Verification System), but this […]
Pulse at Parkes at Pawsey in Perth
March 12, 2020
PULSE@Parkes is an education program allowing high school students to take control of the Parkes radio telescope and do some real science by observing pulsars. Pulsars, the rapidly spinning remnants […]
Wallaby Busy Week
March 11, 2020
The ASKAP WALLABY survey will observe the sky in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen (or HI) at 30-arcsec resolution, detecting and imaging the gas distribution in hundreds of thousands […]
Pawsey Medal
March 10, 2020
The Australian Academy of Science’s Pawsey Medal for 2020 has been awarded to Associate Professor Adam Deller from Swinburne University of Technology. Adam uses high angular resolution radio imaging to […]
Welcome Rebecca Wheadon
March 9, 2020
CSIRO is excited to welcome Rebecca Wheadon to our Astronomy and Space Science team as Site Entity Leader for the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO). Based in Perth, Rebecca will be […]
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.