STEM Professionals in Schools
May 21, 2021
This week is National Volunteer Week and a new CSIRO blog article describes the work that CSIRO postdoc Chenoa Tremblay is doing as part of the STEM Professionals in Schools […]
WOW — Wear Orange Wednesday
May 20, 2021
National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteers. From Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd May 2021, NVW will celebrate the significant contribution of Australia’s almost six million […]
ATNF Colloquium – Confirming the presence of a supermassive black hole binary in OJ 287 using multi-wavelength observations
May 19, 2021
Lankeswar Dey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Abstract: The observed quasi-periodic doubly peaked high-brightness flares in the 130-year long optical lightcurve of blazar OJ 287 is best explained by its […]
WALLABY observations of the Hydra I cluster – by Reynolds et al.
May 18, 2021
Reynolds et al. present results from neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) observations of the Hydra I cluster taken as part of the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). The […]
WALLABY observations of the Hydra I cluster – by Reynolds et al.
May 17, 2021
Reynolds et al. present results from neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) observations of the Hydra I cluster taken as part of the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). The […]
Deuterated ammonia in massive star-forming clumps – by Wienen et al.
May 14, 2021
Deuteration — the occurrence of deuterium (a “heavy” hydrogen atom, with a neutron in addition to the proton in the nucleus) in place of a hydrogen atom in a molecule […]
SKA telescope directors announced
May 13, 2021
The SKA Observatory (SKAO) has announced the appointment of its telescope directors in Australia and South Africa . Dr Sarah Pearce, currently Acting Chief Scientist of Australia’s national science agency […]
ATNF Colloquium – Toward the first sample of radio powerful AGN in the EoR
May 12, 2021
Guillaume Drouart (ICRAR/Curtin) Abstract: With the very recent discovery of radio luminous AGN at z>6, a new window of opportunity is finally opening in the study of the galaxy evolution […]
Cavities in proto-planetary disks – by Norfolk et al.
May 11, 2021
Protoplanetary discs around young stars are the birth places of planets. Of particular interest are the so-called transition discs, which exhibit inner cavities in their dust distribution. One possible explanation […]
CSIRO website refresh
May 10, 2021
The main CSIRO webpage has recently been refreshed, and is worth a visit as the homepage currently features movie footage of ATNF telescopes as one of its banner images. A […]
A newly discovered supernova remnant – by Becker et al.
May 7, 2021
Supernova remnants (SNRs) are observable for about 100,000 years before they fade into the Galactic interstellar medium. With a Galactic supernova rate of approximately two per century, we can expect […]
The Location of the Young Pulsar PSR J0837-2454 – by Pol et al.
May 6, 2021
The pulsar PSR J0837–2454 was discovered with the Parkes telescope as part of the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) intermediate- latitude survey. The pulsar has a 629ms period and a […]
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.
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