International Women’s Day
March 8, 2018
Today is International Women’s Day! March 8th was adopted for International Women’s Day by the United Nations in 1975, but was recognised in some countries long before then, including Russia, […]
The foundations of radio astronomy…
March 7, 2018
Following the book launch of the Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy last month, a tour was arranged to the Potts Hill reservoir site, which hosted a number of radio telescopes […]
Potts Hill tour
March 6, 2018
Following the book launch of Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy last month, a tour was arranged to the Potts Hill reservoir site, which hosted a number of radio telescopes between […]
Marsfield wildlife
March 5, 2018
Wildlife is not uncommon at the CASS observatory sites, as documented in previous previous ADAPs, including a bungarra at the MRO , kangaroos , more kangaroos , and a wild […]
First signs of the earliest stars
March 2, 2018
There has been quite a bit of media coverage about the reported detection of signals from the earliest stars in the Universe using the EDGES antenna at the Murchison Radio-astronomy […]
First signs of the earliest stars
March 1, 2018
Astronomers have detected signals from the earliest stars in the Universe using a small radio antenna, located at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. The discovery, led by […]
ATNF Colloquium – Hunting for the first stars I: Attempts to demystify He II with MUSE
February 28, 2018
by Themiya Nanayakkara (Leiden) Abstract. In the quest for identifying pop-III stars, the most sought-after emission line is He II, however, stellar population models are unable to accurately predict the […]
The Culgoora Radioheliograph 43 MHz Antenna
February 27, 2018
One of last week’s ADAP’s showed an antenna of the Culgoora Radioheliograph, an array of 96 dishes spaced around a ring with a 3km diameter which operated at 80 and […]
Gemini Follow-up of Two Massive HI Clouds Discovered with ASKAP
February 26, 2018
by Juan Madrid Using the Gemini Multi Object Spectrograph (GMOS), Madrid et al. searched for optical counterparts of two massive (∼a billion solar masses) neutral hydrogen clouds near the spiral […]
Pulsar Rotation Measures and Large-scale Magnetic Field Reversals in the Galactic Disk
February 23, 2018
Han et al. present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars, observed by the Parkes 64 m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100 m radio telescope, to analyze […]
Culgoora Radioheliograph, from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive
February 22, 2018
The image above, dating from 1968, is taken from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive and shows sunset behind one of the antennas of the Culgoora radio-heliograph. The radio-heliograph had […]
Potts Hill, from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive
February 21, 2018
The image above, dating from January 1953, is taken from the CSIRO Radio Astronomy Image Archive. The picture shows CSIRO staff working on a 36 ft (11 m) diameter antenna […]
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.