David Malin Awards 2026
July 31, 2026
David Malin worked for 26 years at the Anglo-Australian Observatory as photographic scientist and astronomer. Over his career he invented new ways of revealing information on astronomical plates, earning an […]
A new likely pulsar binary in 47 Tucanae from continuum searches
July 30, 2026
Maccarone et al. present evidence that the X-ray source W41 in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, long considered to be an X-ray source powered by coronal activity, is actually a […]
ATNF Colloquium — Harshda Saxena (Caltech)
July 29, 2026
A Multi-Wavelength Study of Cluster Cosmology and Astrophysics The background is an X-ray image from eROSITA with SZ contours (cyan) from SPT/Planck and radio contours (white) from ASKAP overlaid, with […]
ATNF Colloquium — Anna Ho (Cornell)
July 28, 2026
Relativistic Stellar Explosions: The Landscape Revealed by Wide-field, High-cadence Optical Surveys Artist’s impression of a relativistic outflow powered by a newly formed compact object (Image credit Ron Miller, Scientific American) […]
Intended emission, unwanted emission, and unintended radiation from low-Earth orbiting satellites
July 27, 2026
Indermuehle and Lourenço present the first results of SNIFFLES, an observational programme to characterize intended emission, unwanted emission, and unintended radiation from non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems across common radio […]
Surprise and Enterprise
July 24, 2026
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is celebrating its centenary this year. Established as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1926, it was constitued as a statutory authority […]
Fifty years ago
July 23, 2026
As CSIRO is celebrating its centenary this year it (obviously) celebrated its 50th anniversary fifty years ago! In 1976, CSIRO had more than 2000 scientists and a total staff of […]
CSIRO’s centenary
July 22, 2026
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is celebrating its centenary this year. Established as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1926, it was constituted as a statutory authority […]
Asteroid (20385) Horiuchi
July 21, 2026
At the recent Asteroids, Comets, Meteors conference, the official naming of minor planets were commemorated. Amongst those honoured were CSIRO’s Shinji Horiuchi, in recognition of his contribution to the study […]
VASTER: Rejecting false candidates
July 20, 2026
Wang et al. present VASTER, the first short-timescale imaging and transient detection pipeline running in real time on a widefield radio telescope. VASTER has been running on ASKAP since July 2025, […]
VASTER: Detected transient sources
July 17, 2026
Wang et al. present VASTER, the first short-timescale imaging and transient detection pipeline running in real time on a widefield radio telescope. VASTER has been running on ASKAP since July […]
VASTER: The ASKAP real-time fast-imaging pipeline
July 16, 2026
Recent developments in widefield radio telescopes have enabled searches of a new region of parameter space in the time domain: timescales of seconds to minutes, that have been overlooked in […]
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.
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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.