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March 31, 2022

Gürkan et al. present ASKAP observations of the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) 23h field. The survey was carried out at 887.5 MHz and covers a ∼83 square degree field. […]

March 30, 2022

The Deep Investigation of Neutral Gas Origins (DINGO) is an ongoing deep survey of GAMA fields in HI 21 cm emission using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. Roychowdhury et […]

March 29, 2022

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at Narrabri is built on the site of the Culgoora Radio-heliograph, which operated from 1967 to 1984. Five of the ATCA’s six 22-m antennas […]

March 28, 2022

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at Narrabri is built on the site of the Culgoora Radio-heliograph, which operated from 1967 to 1984. Five of the ATCA’s six 22-m antennas […]

March 25, 2022

The SKAO Council is the Observatory’s governing body representing Member States. The Council met earlier this month, and the image above shows SKAO Council Chairperson, Catherine Cesarsky, SKAO Director General, […]

March 24, 2022

Odd Radio Circles, or ORCs, have been pulled into sharp focus by an international team of astronomers. First revealed by the ASKAP radio telescope, ORCs quickly became objects of fascination. […]

March 23, 2022

Christian Reichardt (U. Melbourne) Abstract: Measurements of the polarisation of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are an important tool to test our understanding of the Universe. Searches for the faint […]

March 22, 2022

This month’s ASKAP update , described in yesterday’s ADAP, also contained the images above, of a portion of our galaxy. The images were made at 944 MHz on the left […]

March 21, 2022

The ASKAP update for March focused on preparation for full scale testing on Setonix Phase I and also reports on RACS (Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey) and Pilot Surveys Phase II […]

March 18, 2022

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), at Narrabri in northern NSW, features 22m diameter antennas that can be moved along rail tracks to place them in different array configurations. Currently, […]

March 17, 2022

Duchesne et al. present new low-frequency (88–216 MHz) Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) observations of the complex merging galaxy cluster Abell 3266 and combine these with ASKAP RACS-low data. They detect […]

March 16, 2022

Charlotte Ward (University of Maryland) Abstract: Over the last 3 years, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has demonstrated the capability of wide-field time-domain surveys to discover the important black hole […]


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.