ASKAP panorama
January 24, 2025
The ASKAP array consists of 36 antennas with antenna spacings ranging from 22m to 6km. This makes it challenging to capture all ASKAP antennas in a single image from the […]
ASKAP Update for January
January 23, 2025
The ASKAP Update for January includes reports on survey progress over the holidays, recent publications arising from ASKAP data, and plans for 2025. The main goal for 2025 is to […]
ATNF Colloquium – Di Li
January 22, 2025
A Tale of Two Surveys: Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS) and Cosmic Antennae (CA) Di Li (Tsinghua University) Abstract:As first large-scale simultaneous survey of HI and pulsars, the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST […]
Blinking radio pulses
January 20, 2025
Last Friday’s ADAP described the discovery of the ultra long period transient ASKAP J1839-0756. Lead authors on that paper, Joshua Lee and Manisha Caleb describe their work in an article […]
Astronomers in a (very slow) spin!
January 17, 2025
Long-period radio transients are a new class of astronomical objects characterized by periods ranging from 18 to 54 minutes. They exhibit bursts highly polarized, beamed radio emission lasting only 10–100 seconds. The intrinsic […]
Parkes Elvis Festival 2025
January 16, 2025
The Parkes Elvis Festival celebrated its 32nd year earlier this month! The theme for this year’s festival, held from January 8th to 12th, was Easy Come, Easy Go, the title of Elvis’s […]
Parkes Elvis Festival 2025
January 15, 2025
The Parkes Elvis Festival celebrated its 32nd year earlier this month! The theme for this year’s festival, held from January 8th to 12th, was Easy Come, Easy Go, the title […]
Discovery of a young pulsar in the supernova remnant G336.7+0.5
January 14, 2025
The detection of pulsars associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) and/or pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) is crucial for unraveling their formation history, yet the association with a radio pulsar is observed […]
Discovery of a young pulsar in the supernova remnant G336.7+0.5
January 13, 2025
The detection of pulsars associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) and/or pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) is crucial for unraveling their formation history, yet associations with radio pulsars are observed in only […]
The variability of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies with the ATCA
January 10, 2025
Shao et al. present multifrequency radio data for a sample of Narrow-Line type 1 Seyfert (NLS1) galaxies, studying the long-term radio variability of five sources and comparing it to their […]
Three new high-redshift galaxies discovered in RACS
January 9, 2025
The Rapid ASKAP Continnum Survey (RACS) has produced detailed images and catalogues of the radio sky, which have been widely used by the international astronomy community. Ighina et al. present […]
Three new high-redshift galaxies discovered in RACS
January 8, 2025
The Rapid ASKAP Continnum Survey (RACS) has produced detailed images and catalogues of the radio sky, which have been widely used by astronomers worldwide. Ighina et al. present a multi-wavelength […]
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.