ATNF Colloquium – Stars that merge in the Milky Way
April 11, 2024
Albert Zijlstra (University of Manchester) Stellar explosions come in two main varieties. At the top end are the supernovae, visible to cosmological distances but which may be missed when occurring […]
Conversation article on the magnetar XTE J1810-197 – by Lower et al.
April 10, 2024
Magnetars are young neutron stars, with magnetic fields billions of times stronger than our most powerful Earth-based magnets. The slow decay of their magnetic fields creates an enormous amount of […]
William Wordsworth
April 9, 2024
The X (formerly twitter) feed of the CanberraDSN recently included the image above of the Canberra Deep Space Commiunication Complex’s 70m DSS-43 antenna together with William Wordsworth’s lines “I wandered […]
Total Solar Eclipses
April 8, 2024
The only total solar eclipse this year occurs today and is visible from part of North America. To mark this event, we reproduce (with permission) the image used in the […]
256 down, 130,816 to go!
April 5, 2024
The SKA-Low telescope design contains 512 stations, each of which is made up of 256 antennas, for a total of 131,072 antennas. The first SKA-Low antenna was installed early last […]
Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets – by Russell et al.
April 4, 2024
Russell et al. monitored the accreting neutron star 4U 1728-34 with a simultaneous radio and X-ray observing campaign. The radio observations, which probe the jet emission, were taken over a […]
Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets – by Russell et al.
April 3, 2024
Relativistic jets are observed from accreting systems throughout the Universe, and have a profound impact on their surroundings. Despite their importance, the jet launching mechanism is not known. For accreting […]
Friends of Technology and Innovation
April 2, 2024
Last week a delegation from the Western Australian Parliamentary Friends of Technology and Innovation visited Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. The group is open to all members of […]
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.