Welcome Samuel Lai
March 12, 2024
Samuel Lai recently joined CSIRO Space & Astronomy at Kensington as a CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Fellow to work on novel and independent Very Long Baseline Interferometry image reconstruction […]
The first SKA-Low antenna
March 11, 2024
Last week the first antennas of the SKA-Low telescope were deployed on Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, on Wajarri Country. The antennas are the first of the […]
International Women’s Day
March 8, 2024
To commemorate International Women’s Day, we celebrate the life of pioneering radio astronomer Ruby Payne-Scott. A recent Lost Women of Science podcast tells the story of Ruby Payne-Scott’s career, including […]
The bright side of the rainbow
March 7, 2024
This double rainbow behind Murriyang, CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, was captured by Maxim Voronkov on a visit several years ago. The image also nicely illustrates how the sky inside a […]
ATNF Colloquium – The Frontier in Low Frequency Radio Astrophysics from the Farside of the Moon
March 6, 2024
Nivedita Mahesh (California Institute of Technology) Abstract: The Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE) is a NASA Probe-class concept to place a low-frequency […]
A radio flare associated with eRASSt J234403−352640: a potential tidal disruption event – by Goodwin et al.
March 5, 2024
When mass is suddenly accreted onto a super-massive black hole, the release of gravitational energy powers some of the most explosive phenomena in the Universe. Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are […]
The view from the Moon
March 4, 2024
Intuitive Machines lunar lander, Odysseus, was powered down last week just before it entered the two-week lunar night. One of the last images it sent back was this picture taken […]
CSIRO at Sydney Mardi Gras
March 1, 2024
To solve the greatest challenges through our science and technology, CSIRO needs the best people and diverse teams. CSIRO has marched in the Mardi Gras Parade in Sydney since 2019 […]
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.