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April 28, 2023

Earlier this month DSS-43, the 70-metre antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, celebrated its 50 years of supporting exploration of our Solar System and beyond. Deep Space Station […]

April 27, 2023

From Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, the moon blocked a little over 80% of the Sun’s disk during last Thursday’s solar eclipse. ASKAP observations were made during […]

April 26, 2023

Jayender Kumar (CSIRO) Abstract: Understanding the 3D structure and associated dynamics of the inner 4-kpc of the Milky Way is very challenging because of high obscuration at optical wavelengths and […]

April 24, 2023

The path of totality for last Thursday’s solar eclipse passed over Exmouth in Western Australia, and continued through Timor Leste and West Papua. In other parts of Australia a partial […]

April 21, 2023

Exmouth enjoyed clear skies for yesterday’s total solar eclipse today. Today’s image is, like yesterday’s, from the eclipse of December 2002. This was a partial solar eclipse as seen from […]

April 20, 2023

There will be a total solar eclipse today, with the town of Exmouth in Western Australia lying along the ~50km wide path of totality. The total eclipse in Exmouth will […]

April 19, 2023

Caroline Foster (UNSW) Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the dynamical transformation of galaxies across cosmic time. I will explore common barriers to and possible solutions for the accurate […]

April 18, 2023

ESA’s JUICE mission launched on 14 April 2023 at 12:14 UTC (8:14 pm AWST) on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. A one-day delay […]

April 17, 2023

Jayender Kumar recently joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy, taking up a Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the GASKAP-OH Project . Jay completed a PhD in VLBI Spectral Line Astrometry at […]

April 14, 2023

This week marked the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Dish Cafe at the Parkes Observatory. The Cafe was opened by Ron Ekers, the immediate past Director of the […]

April 13, 2023

The Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) large-area radio continuum survey will detect tens of millions of radio galaxies, giving an opportunity for the detection of previously unknown classes of […]

April 12, 2023

Chandrashekar Murugeshan (CSIRO) Abstract: Neutral atomic Hydrogen (HI) gas is the fundamental reservoir from which stars in galaxies are eventually formed. As such, studying the HI gas properties in galaxies […]


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.