ASKAP observations of the Corkscrew Galaxy – by Koribalski et al.
August 27, 2024
Abell 3627, also known as the Norma Cluster, is a rich, nearby galaxy cluster with catalogued cluster galaxies within the 2 Mpc Abell radius. Near the edge of the cluster […]
New ATCA study of the LMC Supernova Remnant N49 – by Ghavam et al.
August 26, 2024
Ghavam et al. present new ATCA radio observations toward N49, one of the brightest supernova remnants (SNRs) located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). New and archival ATCA radio observations […]
A rainbow over cryoPAF tests
August 23, 2024
The cryoPAF (cryogenically cooled Phased Array Feed) is back at the Parkes Observatory for another round of ground tests, before being re-installed in the focus cabin for “on-Dish” tests. Late […]
ASKAP Update for August
August 22, 2024
The ASKAP Update for August includes reports on survey progress, Pawsey supercomputer maintenance, a new project aimed at improving ASKAP’s development capacity and ASKAP’s impact at the IAU General Assembly. […]
ATNF Colloquium – Investigating the Epoch of Reionisation with Radio Interferometers
August 21, 2024
Pascal Keller (Leiden Observatory) Abstract: The Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) marks the cosmic period during which the neutral hydrogen that pervaded the Universe transitioned to an almost entirely ionised state. […]
The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array at the Frontiers of Science
August 20, 2024
The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array collaboration has been awarded a Frontiers of Science Award at the 2024 International Congress of Basic Science . Andrew Zic accepted the award on behalf […]
Milky Way from rural NSW
August 19, 2024
Luke Vadekar had a week at Space and Astronomy last week for work experience. Luke is also a keen astrophotographer, with one of his works shown above. Luke explains, “Here […]
PULSE@Parkes at the IAU
August 16, 2024
The Australia Telescope National Facility booth at the 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly has given out a lot of stickers and postcards, answered a lot of questions, and also […]
First images from an SKA-Low station
August 15, 2024
The SKAO has just released a first video of images made with one complete SKA-Low station. The SKA-Low station S8-6 produced the images only five months after the first antenna […]
ATNF Colloquium – AAL member update to CSIRO Space & Astronomy
August 14, 2024
Orsola De Marco, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Romy Pearse Abstract: AAL is a not-for-profit organisation, whose members are Australian universities and institutions with a significant astronomical research capability. CSIRO Space […]
IAU Offices Plenary Session
August 13, 2024
The program for the 2024 International Astronomical Union General Assembly has a plenary session at the start of each day. Yesterday’s session started with a presentation from Nobel Laureate Brian […]
SKA Day at the IAU GA
August 12, 2024
National Women’s Day is a public holiday celebrated each year on August 9th in South Africa. The day commemorates the 1956 march of 20,000 women to protest against the country’s […]
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.