July 31, 2024
Hao Ding (Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ) Abstract: Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are the fastest-spinning neutron stars. Thanks to their superbtime-keeping ability, MSPs have provided sharp tests of gravitational theories, and have […]
July 30, 2024
Mary Putman (Columbia University) Abstract: As galaxies evolve, they transfer their baryons into different forms and between fellow galaxies. This talk will follow gaseous baryons from a dwarf galaxy to […]
July 29, 2024
Several sources of repeating coherent bursts of radio emission with periods of many minutes have now been reported in the literature. These “ultra-long period” (ULP) sources have no clear multi-wavelength […]
July 26, 2024
CSIRO’s Marsfield site was opened in 1968, and the picture above left was taken in the early years of the site’s existence. The picture at right shows the entrance today. […]
July 25, 2024
The Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 OD1 is classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, meaning that it is big enough (about 300m across), and that its orbit comes close enough to Earth, […]
July 24, 2024
Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) is a citizen-science project that uses multi-wavelength data to locate supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. The original RGZ ran from 2013 to 2019, and enabled […]
July 23, 2024
The SKA Observatory (SKAO) Council met earlier this month at SKAO HQ in the UK. Council was joined by representatives of the Wajarri Yamaji, providing the opportunity to share culture […]
July 22, 2024
The Jackson-Gwilt Award of the Royal Astronomical Society was awarded earlier this year to Keith Bannister and Ryan Shannon for their innovative use of ASKAP in studies of Fast Radio […]
July 19, 2024
The millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 rotates 174 times per second but much of its characteristics have remained a mystery. Now, thanks to almost 30 years of observations from Murriyang, CSIRO’s […]
July 18, 2024
Galaxy clusters are large gravitationally-bound structures, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, with typical masses of 10 14 to 10 15 solar masses. Diffuse radio emission is often observed in […]
July 17, 2024
Apurba Bera (ICRAR/Curtin) Abstract: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brilliant short-duration flashes of radio emission originating at cosmological distances. Vast diversity in the properties of currently known FRBs, complex spectro-temporal […]
July 16, 2024
The ASKAP Update for July highlights progress on the new ASKAPsoft bright source subtraction feature, and describes plans for an ASKAP symposium in November 2024. One of the highest priority […]
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.
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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.