The Power of ALMA : revealing the initial conditions for cluster formation
April 25, 2015
by Jill Rathborne (CASS) Two images of the dust continuum emission toward a very cold, dense molecular cloud that sits close to the centre of our Galaxy. This extreme cloud, […]
ICASSP 2015 – Brisbane
April 24, 2015
by Gregory Hellbourg (CASS) On Tuesday 21 April was the official opening of the 40th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2015) held this year in Brisbane. This […]
Summer students visit Parkes
April 23, 2015
by Yiannis Gonidakis (CASS) ATNF summer students visiting the 64-m Parkes Telescope in January 2013 (from left to right: James Neild, Daniel Reardon, Tiffany Day, Claire-Elise Green, and Sarah Hegarty), […]
ATNF Colloquium – The ZFOURGE survey: the evolution of galaxies since redshift z=4
April 22, 2015
by Lee Spitler (MQ/AAO) Abstract. I will review results from the ZFOURGE survey, a new imaging campaign to track galaxy evolution over the last 12 billion years. Deep Magellan near-infrared […]
Teacher workshop at Parkes
April 21, 2015
by Rob Hollow (CASS) Teachers, this is your last chance to sign up for this year’s “Astronomy from the Ground Up!” teacher workshop at the CSIRO Parkes Observatory, 15 – […]
Hydrogen streams in the Grus Quartet
April 20, 2015
by Bärbel Koribalski (CASS) The Grus Quartet consists of four large spiral galaxies, three of which appear to be close together (NGC 7582, NGC 7590 and NGC 7599), while the […]
Parkes fly-over
April 19, 2015
by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) Bird’s eye view of the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. Picture taken during a fly-over on 3 Jan 2009 with Maxim Voronkov by passengers Michele Pestalozzi and […]
ATCA fly-over
April 18, 2015
by Maxim Voronkov (CASS) Bird’s eye view of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) in a hybrid configuration (H214 for the experts). The picture was taken on 27 Dec 2008 […]
Sunset over ASKAP
April 17, 2015
by Rob Hollow (CASS) Sunset over the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO). ASKAP is a radio interferometer, consisting of 36 dishes, each 12-m in size […]
ATCA at sunrise
April 16, 2015
by Amy Kimball (CASS) The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) observing at sunrise after working all night! As shown here, the telescope is in an east-west configuration, observing a source […]
Simulated dwarf galaxy
April 15, 2015
by Alan Duffy (Swinburne University of Technology) A simulated dwarf galaxy forming when the Universe was half its current age. The Dark Matter is in red, the stars in yellow […]
Australia Telescope Compact Array
April 14, 2015
by Amy Kimball (CASS) OCE postdoctoral fellow at ATNF, Dr Amy Kimball, models one of the bright orange hard hats that is required clothing during a tour of one of […]
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.