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July 31, 2023

Hurley-Walker et al. have discovered a new type of stellar object that challenges our understanding of the physics of neutron stars. The object named GPM J1839−10, could be an ultra-long […]

July 28, 2023

Yesterday’s ADAP showed the SKA-Low Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) 3 midway through its assembly. Once construction of the 256-antenna station was completed, the SKA-Low team paused to take a […]

July 27, 2023

Preparations for the assembly of the Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) 3 were described in in an ADAP earlier this year . Earlier AAVS arrays used a pseudo-random layout of […]

July 26, 2023

July 2023 is a significant milestone for the Murchison Widefield Array, marking a decade of operations for the telescope. To celebrate, ICRAR-Curtin is hosting a four-day Project Meeting to commemorate […]

July 25, 2023

As part of an effort to quantify ASKAP’s RFI environment and monitor changes during SKA construction, a first trial epoch was recently carried out of SMART, the Survey and routine […]

July 24, 2023

Barnali Das recently joined CSIRO Space & Astronomy, Kensington as a Bolton Research Scientist. She earned her PhD from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, […]

July 21, 2023

Earlier this month the Parkes Observatory hosted a “Stargazing at The Dish” event with the Central West Astronomical Society (CWAS), which was a success, despite the clouds that started to […]

July 20, 2023

The ASKAP update for July includes reports on ongoing survey operations, maintenance activities, data processing and quality (and solar interference in particular) and the SMART (Survey and routine Monitoring of […]

July 19, 2023

Darren Croton (Swinburne) Abstract: Much progress has been made in recent years in our understanding of the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes, and their connection to the underlying […]

July 18, 2023

A hand-crafted boomerang that travelled into space on the Inspriation4 mission was unveiled at the Parkes Observatory last week. The Space Boomerang was created by Indigenous artist Lewis Burns and […]

July 17, 2023

At the recent Annual Science Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia, CSIRO Space and Astronomy received a Silver Pleiades award from the ASA’s Inclusion, Diversity and Equity in Astronomy […]

July 14, 2023

Duchesne et al. have recently published the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS) at 1367.5 MHz, “RACS-mid”, which covers the whole sky south of a declination of +49 degrees. The images […]


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.