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ATNF Colloquium — Imke de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)

September 30, 2026

Io’s Volcanic Activity as seen through Multi-Wavelength Observations A composite image of Io in front of a Cassini photo of Jupiter. ALMA observations show plumes of sulfur dioxide (yellow) rising […]

Wildflowers blooming within an SKA-Low station

SKA-Low wildflowers

September 29, 2026

Yesterday’s ADAP showed a view of Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, looking down from the sky. Today’s ADAP is the ground view of SKA-Low antennas looking up […]

Images captured with the NASA's OLI (Operational Land Imager) on the NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite, comparing the more verdant landscape of late August 2026 (right) with a similar time in 2025 (left), when it was drier. Image credit; NASA

A boom year for blooms

September 28, 2026

Recent ADAPs have showcased the spectacular wildflowers seen this year in the mid-west of Western Australia. Further evidence comes from a NASA Image of the Day last week. The images […]

Nighttime exterior telescope rendering with support site buildings in the foreground. Image credit: Giant Magellan Telescope – GMTO Corporation.

de Laeter Colloquium — Chris Tinney (UNSW, and GMTO Board Member)

September 25, 2026

The Giant Magellan Telescope – An Update on Australia’s ELT Abstract: The decision for Australia to not proceed with ESO membership, means that Australia’s only funded next-generation optical/infrared facility is […]

The Macquarie Uni Radio Astronomy booth at the Uni's Astronomy Open Night (Image credit: George Hobbs)

Macquarie Uni Astronomy Open Night

September 24, 2026

First held in 1988, Astronomy Open Night at Macquarie University is an annual event that attracts thousands of visitors and is now one of the largest public science events in […]

ATNF Colloquium — Hiroshi Imai (Kagoshima University)

September 23, 2026

Exploration of the stellar population in the Galactic Center through maser sources Preliminary survey result of SiO v=1 J=2->1 maser sources in the ACES archive (Tsuboi et al. 2027, IAUS405 […]

The CSIRO booth at the Macquarie Uni Astronomy Open Night, 2026. Image credit: Robert Hollow

Macquarie Uni Astronomy Open Night

September 22, 2026

First held in 1988, Astronomy Open Night at Macquarie University is an annual event that attracts thousands of visitors and is now one of the largest public science events in […]

The image above shows an ASKAP image obtained with IViS (Interferometric Visibility-domain Inversion Software) for the LMC at a velocity (LSR) of 238.6 km/s. The right panel shows the short-spacing corrected image obtained using traditional feathering with Parkes Murriyang data. From Marchal et al. 2026.

IViS joint deconvolution with ASKAP

September 21, 2026

Wide-field spectral-line imaging with modern radio interferometers remains challenging when the emission is extended, multiscale, and distributed over many overlapping pointings. In this regime, accurate reconstruction requires joint treatment of […]

Wildflowers in front of ASKAP antennas. Image credit: CSIRO/Red Empire Media

ASKAP wildflowers

September 18, 2026

It’s wildflower season in Western Australia! The season starts in July and lasts through to October. There are more than 12,000 species of wildflowers in Western Australia and Inyarrimanha Ilgari […]

Pulses detected from J1832-09 by ASKAP in chronological order. Thee columns from left to right are: peak-normalised mean pulse profile over the band with linear and circular polarised components; linear polarisation position angle (PA); Faraday rotation measure (RM) minus the ionospheric contribution; spectral index; peak mean intensity across the band (Ipeak) with absolute time on the vertical axis. From Horvath et al. 2026

Evidence for the binary nature of the long-period radio transient ASKAP/DART J1832−0911

September 17, 2026

Long-period transients are a class of periodic pulsed radio source repeating on the minute to hour timescale. An increasing number of them are being identified as binary systems, specifically white […]

Progress with the Parkes LAMBDA site, September 2026.

LAMBDA at Parkes

September 16, 2026

A recent ADAP showed the LAMBDA station at the ATCA, which is already populated with a number of SKA-Low antennas. CSIRO is undertaking the LAMBDA (Low-frequency Australian Megametre-Baseline Demonstrator Array) […]

Staff and co-supervised students visiting the Parkes Observatory, September 2026. Image credit: John Sarkissian

Visit to Parkes

September 15, 2026

With the establishment of the Science Operations Centre at Marsfield in 2012, opportunities for co-supervised students to visit the Observatory sites have decreased. With the realisation that students were interested […]

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.