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December 22, 2023

Season’s Greetings to all ADAP readers! The log-periodic SKALA antennas being used for the SKA-Low telescope are often dubbed Christmas Trees, and so at this time of year it is […]

December 21, 2023

Season’s Greetings to all ADAP readers! Each year CSIRO describes and names up to 200 insects that are new to science. The Sapphire Azure butterfly has bright iridescent blue upperwings […]

December 20, 2023

Joe Callingham (ASTRON) Abstract: One key question that astronomy is attempting to answer is whether there are habitable planets around stars other than our Sun. While we have entered an […]

December 19, 2023

The ASKAP update for December reports on survey progress, the status of ASKAP’s processing backlog, plans for operations over vacation period, and takes a look back over all that has […]

December 18, 2023

Season’s Greetings to all ADAP readers! The image above is topographic projection using the Extended Reality Interface in CSIRO’s lunar testing facilities at Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies in Brisbane.

December 15, 2023

An ADAP earlier this year showed the SKA’s Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) 3 taking shape at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. The log-periodic SKALA antennas are […]

December 14, 2023

The 2022/2023 ATNF Annual Report is now available on-line . The document covers the ATNF’s Key Performance Indicators, highlights for each of the ATNF telescopes and programs, and listings of […]

December 13, 2023

Ron Ekers (CSIRO) Abstract: It was 90 years ago when Karl Jansky announced his discovery of radio noise from the Milky Way Galaxy at the April 1933 meeting of URSI […]

December 12, 2023

Wang et al. have reported the discovery of a young, highly scattered pulsar in a search for highly circularly polarized radio sources as part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array […]

December 11, 2023

A recent ADAP described bistatic radar observations of an asteroid during its close approach to Earth. These were made by transmitting a tone at 7.1 GHz from an antenna at […]

December 8, 2023

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The RACS-mid survey was published by Duchesne et al. […]

December 7, 2023

The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) has surveyed the sky at multiple frequencies as part of the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS). The RACS-mid survey was published by Duchesne et al. […]


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.