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June 30, 2021

Lawrence Hargrave , who was pictured on the original Australian $20 note, is best known as an aeronautical pioneer, but also worked as an astronomer! Hargrave started work at the […]

June 29, 2021

The concept that gas filaments connect clusters of galaxies across the universe has been difficult to prove until recently, because the matter in these filaments is so sparse it eluded […]

June 28, 2021

The detections of community transfer of COVID-19 across Australia have led to lockdowns and border closures (and just as school holidays were commencing!). But, if you can’t physically travel, you […]

June 25, 2021

The Parkes Dish “turned blue” in 2017 and again in 2018 to support the cause of autism awareness. Yesterday’s image of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex 70m antenna at […]

June 24, 2021

The Southern Hemisphere winter has well and truly arrived, with colder-than-usual weather experienced across much of the country. The image above shows the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex 70m antenna […]

June 23, 2021

HII (“H-two”) regions are the zones of ionized gas surrounding young, massive stars. These nebulae are tracers of spiral arms and gas-phase metallicity structure in galaxies. Their physical properties (e.g., […]

June 22, 2021

When used in the same conversation as ASKAP, Emu most often refers to the Evolution Map of the Universe (EMU) Survey Science Program. A previous ADAP showed emus on the […]

June 21, 2021

Quasar Satellite Technologies is a space startup company aiming to revolutionise space communication by allowing ground stations to talk to hundreds of satellites at once using CSIRO’s Phased Array Feed […]

June 18, 2021

The ASKAP Update for June reports on work to improve ASKAP’s digital firmware, Pilot Survey Phase II quality gate processing, CASDA updates due this month, and finally highlights the latest […]

June 17, 2021

Carotenuto et al. have presented radio and X-ray monitoring campaign of an outburst of MAXI J1348–630, a new black hole X-ray binary (XRB) discovered in 2019 January. They observed MAXI […]

June 16, 2021

James Miller-Jones (ICRAR/Curtin) Abstract: The high-mass X-ray binary system Cygnus X-1 contains one of the first known and best-studied black holes. We recently refined the distance to the source using […]

June 15, 2021

Pulsar glitches are sudden spin-up events that occur in radio pulsars. Over 550 glitches have been catalogued, in 190 individual pulsars, with roughly 7% of known pulsars having displayed a […]


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.