The HIX galaxy survey
January 11, 2017
by Katharina Lutz (Swinburne Uni) We present the HI eXtreme (HIX) galaxy survey targeting some of the most atomic hydrogen (HI) rich galaxies in the southern hemisphere. The 13 HIX […]
Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources: new results
January 10, 2017
by Phil Edwards (CASS) Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources are, as their name suggests, radio sources that have a pronounced peak in their spectrum when flux density is plotted as […]
Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources: new results
January 9, 2017
by Phil Edwards (CASS) Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources are, as their name suggests, radio sources that have a pronounced peak in their spectrum when flux density is plotted as […]
Happy New Year 2017 !
January 3, 2017
To everybody a Happy New Year 2017, stay save and look after each other. There will be many discoveries to be made using your skills, creativity and experience in astronomy. […]
Radio Galaxy Zoo turns 3!
December 21, 2016
by Ivy Wong (UWA) Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) is an online citizen science project that enlists the help of citizen scientists in the classification of radio source components and in […]
Celebrating 30 ASKAP Phased Array Feeds
December 20, 2016
by Leonie Boddington (CASS) ASKAP staff Clarence and Jolene are checking Phased Array Feed (PAF) No 31 is ready to come out of the box. Just recently we celebrated the […]
ATNF Colloquium – The Breakthrough Initiatives: The Shape of Space to Come
December 19, 2016
by Jamie Drew (Breakthrough Prize Foundation) Abstract. At the Royal Society in London on July 20, 2015, Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Lord Martin Rees announced a set of initiatives […]
CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes Telescope tracking Mars
December 16, 2016
by John Sarkissian (CASS) The picture was taken on 31 July 2012. At the time, CSIRO’s 64-m Parkes Telescope was tracking Mars so that we could test our UHF receiver […]
Finding the unknowns in the Universe
December 15, 2016
by Ray Norris (CASS) Most of the big discoveries in astronomy (e.g. pulsars, quasars, dark energy) were unexpected, and often made by an astronomer breaking new ground in the observational […]
Celebrating 30 ASKAP Phased Array Feeds
December 14, 2016
by Nic Svenson (CASS) The last phased array feed (PAF) to complete ASKAP-30 rolled off the production line, was packed into a container and headed off on its journey to […]
Another Vela pulsar glitch
December 13, 2016
Just announced via the Astronomer’s Telesgram , the Vela Pulsar has glitched again: Glitch observed in the Vela Pulsar (PSR J0835-4510) (by Jim Palfreyman, University of Tasmania). The glitch occured […]
Under construction: Distant galaxy churning out stars at remarkable rate
December 12, 2016
by Gabby Russell (CASS) Ma et al. (2016) have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, including the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), to show that a recently-discovered galaxy […]
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.