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June 28, 2024

The 2024 Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting has been taking place this week, jointly hosted by CSIRO and ICRAR. This year’s meeting has been held in an online-first […]

June 27, 2024

Canada has joined the SKA Observatory as a Member, becoming the tenth country to join the intergovernmental organisation. Earlier this month the Canadian Government has announced announced a CAN$269m (approximately […]

June 26, 2024

Benjamin Roberts (University of Queensland) Abstract: Atomic clocks are the most precise instrucments ever constructed. The best atomic clocks today have a precision that corresponds to losing no more than […]

June 25, 2024

When some stars reach the end of their lives they explode as a supernova (SN), and the ejecta from the progenitor star forms an expanding structure known as a supernova […]

June 24, 2024

The ASKAP Update for June reports on the key feedback from the Survey Science Project review workshop and the completion of RACS-high processing. The RACS (Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey) team […]

June 21, 2024

Kurt Warhurst took this spectacular picture earlier this month at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory. Kurt notes: “The photo was taken Friday June 7th 6:48am, between first light […]

June 20, 2024

The broad-spectrum polarization and spectral characteristics of pulsars contain crucial information about the origin of their radio emission. These properties, together with pulsar flux density variations, can also be used […]

June 19, 2024

Josh recently earned his PhD at the University of Sydney searching for radio transients as part of the Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) ASKAP survey group. His research has focused […]

June 18, 2024

The nearby face-on spiral galaxy NGC 5584, at a distance of 23 megaparsecs (75 million light years) is a member of the Virgo III group of galaxies which are positioned […]

June 17, 2024

A popular account of the discovery of the source ASKAP J1935+2148 , which is likely to be a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured, has been described […]

June 14, 2024

CSIRO’s Data Access Portal contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 4 Petabytes from Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is […]

June 13, 2024

Magnetic fields play crucial roles in astrophysics and cosmology, yet their origin and evolution are poorly understood. SKA pathfinder and precursor radio interferometers have revealed a variety of magnetic-field features […]


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.