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April 30, 2021

CASS’s Kevin Ferguson will shortly take up the role of Director of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. Kevin and colleagues recently visited the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory — Kevin’s last […]

April 29, 2021

CASS Head of WA Operations, Kevin Ferguson, will shortly leave this role to become Director of CDSCC. Kevin and colleagues visited the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory after the recent rains in […]

April 28, 2021

Noor Md Said (University of Tasmania/CSIRO) Abstract: In this work I have undertaken a detailed investigation of the BL Lac object PKS B1144−379. This project utilised high-cadence flux density monitoring […]

April 27, 2021

Sobey et al. present high signal-to-noise ratio, full polarization pulse profiles for 40 bright, ‘slowly’ rotating (non-recycled) pulsars using the new ultra-wideband low-frequency (UWL; 704–4032 MHz) receiver on the Parkes […]

April 26, 2021

CSIRO’s Data Access Portal contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 1.7 Petabytes from the Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is VO compatible […]

April 23, 2021

MacGregor et al. have reported the discovery of an extreme flaring event from the star Proxima Centauri by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), […]

April 22, 2021

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory was launched in February and the SKA Council will hold its second meeting next week to progress preparations for the start of construction. The infographic […]

April 21, 2021

The ASKAP Update for April is now available, and includes news on the commencement of quality gate observations for Pilot Surveys Phase II and current processing priorities. An update is […]

April 20, 2021

Double Helix is Australia’s leading science magazine for a youth audience. The Double Helix team has a long-standing reputation for delivering expertly written, fascinating and fun science material for young […]

April 19, 2021

Hot on the heels of the ASKAP detection of a Fast Radio Burst from a repeating FRB source, discovered with the Canadian CHIME telescope, Kumar et al. reported the ASKAP […]

April 16, 2021

The Australian Government has announced a major new investment in the SKA to support the move into the construction phase. The investment includes funding for telescope construction and operations, the […]

April 15, 2021

At the end of March the CHIME/FRB Collaboration reported several repeat bursts from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source, FRB 20201124A. Less than 10% of FRBs are repeaters, and […]


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.