NAIDOC week
July 8, 2021
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and […]
ATNF Colloquium – The FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey
July 7, 2021
JinLin Han (NAOC) Abstract: The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20 K, is the most sensitive radio […]
ASKAP imaging of the LMC – by Pennock et al.
July 6, 2021
Pennock et al. have recently presented an analysis of a new ASKAP radio continuum image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) at 888 MHz with a beam size of 13.9 […]
ASKAP imaging of the LMC – by Pennock et al.
July 5, 2021
The ATCA imaged the LMC in the 1990s by mosaicking 1344 different pointings of the array, in four different array configurations, taken over 1.5 years. The power of ASKAP as […]
Green Light for SKA Construction
July 2, 2021
The newly formed SKA Observatory (SKAO) Council last week approved the start of construction of the SKA telescopes in Australia and South Africa. The decision to approve construction follows the […]
Green Light for SKA Construction
July 1, 2021
The newly formed SKA Observatory (SKAO) Council last week approved the start of construction of the SKA telescopes in Australia and South Africa. The two telescopes, currently designated SKA-Low and […]
Lawrence Hargrave, astronomer
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 […]
The Northern Clump of the Abell 3391/3395 cluster – by Veronica et al.
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 […]
MRO Virtual Tour
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 […]
Tinbinbilla in blue
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 […]
Tidbinbilla in winter
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 […]
The Southern HII Region Discovery Survey – by Wenger et al.
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., […]
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.