Parkes telescope receivers
January 5, 2018
Happy New Year 2018 from CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF).
Cocoons and jets: following up GW 170817
January 4, 2018
GW170817 was the gravitational wave detection of a binary neutron-star merger in the galaxy NGC 4993. It was thought that the detected gamma-ray, X-ray and radio emission was due to […]
Happy New Year from ATNF
January 3, 2018
Happy New Year 2018 from CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Photo credit: Julian Chung (Guardian Australia).
Happy New Year from ATNF
January 2, 2018
Happy New Year 2018 from CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Photo credit: Shaun Amy (CSIRO).
Happy New Year from ATNF
January 1, 2018
Happy New Year 2018 from CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF). Photo credit: John Smith (CSIRO Parkes Observatory).
Christmas Greetings from ASKAP
December 26, 2017
As the final part of our end-of-year extravaganza, we have blown the ADAP budget by hiring a helicopter to suspend a Christmas star by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, […]
Christmas Greetings from ATCA
December 25, 2017
As the second part of our end-of-year extravaganza, we have blown the ADAP budget by hiring a helicopter to suspend a Christmas star by the Australia Telescope Compact Array, being […]
Christmas Greetings from Parkes
December 22, 2017
As the first part of our end-of-year extravaganza, we have blown the ADAP budget by hiring a helicopter to suspend a Christmas star by the Parkes telescope, being very careful […]
Our top telescope tech travels FAST
December 21, 2017
To be scientifically competitive, radio telescopes must have the latest technology to detect, process and analyse the incoming radio waves. CSIRO has been developing specialised instrumentation for radio telescopes since […]
A low-luminosity millisecond pulsar with a planetary-mass companion
December 20, 2017
by Simon Johnston (CASS) Spiewak et al. report on the discovery of a fascinating millisecond pulsar as part of the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey on the Parkes radio […]
Sheep paddock
December 19, 2017
One of the memorable lines from the movie The Dish comes after a politician says to the Prime Minister “Turns out that Parkes is the biggest radio telescope in the […]
OzGrav Opening
December 18, 2017
OzGrav , or more formally the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, was officially opened last month by the Minister for Education and Training, Simon Birmingham. As part […]
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.