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October 29, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and so celebrates its 60th birthday on Sunday. As the image above illustrates, preparations for a small celebration on site are […]

October 28, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and in the lead up to its 60th anniversary, we are featuring images from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. Tuesday’s […]

October 27, 2021

Michael Janssen (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie/Radboud University) Abstract: Centaurus A is the closest radio galaxy to Earth and has been studied extensively as a laboratory for AGN feedback and potential UHECR […]

October 26, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and in the lead up to its 60th anniversary, we are featuring images from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. While […]

October 25, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and in the lead up to its 60th anniversary, we are featuring images from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive.

October 22, 2021

We recently welcomed Laura Driessen to CSIRO Space and Astronomy. Laura was awarded her PhD in “Radio Transients with MeerKAT” from the University of Manchester, and before that completed her […]

October 21, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and in the lead up to its 60th anniversary, we are featuring images from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. Today’s […]

October 20, 2021

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (Space & Astronomy, CSIRO) Abstract: Recent “planet-scale” very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) efforts at millimetre wavelengths have resulted in the first detailed images near the event horizon of […]

October 19, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and in the lead up to its 60th anniversary, we are featuring images from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. Today’s […]

October 18, 2021

The Parkes telescope was inaugurated on October 31st, 1961, and so in the lead up to its 60th anniversary, we will feature images from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. […]

October 15, 2021

An international research team captured an large series of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from the known repeating source FRB 121102, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China. […]

October 14, 2021

Wang et al. have reported the discovery with ASKAP of a highly-polarized, highly-variable, steep-spectrum radio source The source, ASKAP J173608.2−321635, is located toward the centre of our Galaxy and was […]


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.