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Colour-composite plots of the integrated intensity mosaics in galactic coordinates in the three iso-CO lines, using red for 12CO, green for 13CO, and blue for C18O. The wide variations in line ratios across the Galactic plane are evident from the varying colors in this image. (From Barnes et al. 2025)

The Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS)

September 23, 2025

Barnes et al. have just published Data Release 6 of The Three-mm Ultimate Mopra Milky Way Survey (ThrUMMS). The Data Release consists of complete data cubes and various moments of […]

A diagram of a planetary magnetic field responding to the impact of a magnetised stellar wind, advertising Aline Vidotto's colloquium.

ATNF Colloquium — Aline Vidotto (Observatory of Leiden University, Netherlands)

September 22, 2025

Exo-space weather: The impact of stellar activity and outflows on exoplanets Abstract:  Activity of cool dwarf stars can reveal itself in the form of high-energy radiation (eg, enhanced X-ray coronal […]

Colloquium speaker Chenoa Tremblay standing with SETI processing hardware

ATNF Colloquium — Chenoa Tremblay (SETI / Breakthrough)

September 19, 2025

Large-Scale Technosignatures Searches and the Stuff that Makes it Work Abstract: The search for technological life beyond Earth is a large-scale search for unidentified spectral-temporal signatures. So far, most searches for […]

The SKA-Low team in front of a station of 256 antennas.

SKA-Low’s 10,000th antenna

September 18, 2025

The SKA Observatory has reached its first construction milestone, with the first Array Assembly, AA0.5, of the SKA-Low telescope officially delivered. The four-station AA0.5 array, each made up of 256 log-dipole […]

Sky map of the extragalactic component of the ASKAP VAST surveyfor Iris de Ruiter's colloquium

ATNF Colloquium — Iris de Ruiter (University of Sydney)

September 17, 2025

The Variables and Slow Transients Extragalactic survey: exploring radio transients with ASKAP  Abstract:  The Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey on the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is transforming our […]

Aerial view of a cluster of six SKA-Low stations.

SKA-Low’s 10,000th antenna

September 16, 2025

The SKA Observatory has reached its first construction milestone, with the first Array Assembly, AA0.5, of the SKA-Low telescope officially delivered. The four-station array, each made up of 256 log-dipole […]

New ATNF Science staff member Jonghwan Rhee

Welcome Jonghwan Rhee

September 15, 2025

Jonghwan Rhee recently joined CSIRO Space and Astronomy at Kensington as a Research Scientist to support ASKAP spectral line surveys. He received his PhD in Astronomy from the Australian National […]

Display panel at the site of the former Fleurs radio observatory

Fleurs radio observatory

September 12, 2025

The new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport will open next year. The M12 motorway, currently nearing completion, will provide direct access to the Airport from existing motorways. The motorway […]

The four steps of an R U OK? conversation -- https://www.ruok.org.au/ .

R U OK? Day

September 11, 2025

R U OK? is an Australian suicide prevention charity and public health promotion that encourages people to stay connected and have conversations that can help others through difficult times. The […]

Flyer for ATNF Colloquium on 10 Sep 2025 about the SKA (Image credit: SKAO)

ATNF Colloquium — Jane Kaczmarek (SKAO)

September 10, 2025

SKA Science timeline  Abstract: As the SKA timeline towards science progresses, the SKAO aims to engage with the user community to define early access to the SKA telescopes through Science Verification […]

Panel at the site of the Fleurs radio observatory along the shared path beside the M12 motoreway in western Sydney. (Image credit: John Reynolds)

Fleurs radio observatory

September 9, 2025

The M12 motorway, currently nearing completion, will provide direct access to new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, which will open next year. The motorway runs through what was the […]

Sculpture and display at the site of the Fleurs radio observatory, on the shared path that runs alongside the new M12 motorway in western Sydney (Image credit: John Reynolds)

Fleurs radio observatory

September 8, 2025

The new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport will open next year. A new motorway, the M12, will provide direct access to the Airport from existing motorways. The M12 motorway […]

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.