The South African MeerKAT radio telescope, currently being built some 90 km outside the small Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, is a precursor to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope The MeerKAT ...

Darth Vader would be jealous, but so would Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. Both the Rebels and the Imperial Forces only wish they had this laser (which could easily vaporize Luke’s X-wing, blast the ...

The first photograph by 16 dishes in the MeerKAT radio telescope array revealed over 1,300 galaxies, only 70 of which were previously known. The array will include 64 dishes when it is complete. The ...

More than 100 researchers and students from South Africa and around the world are meeting this week to share plans to use the MeerKAT radio telescope. The MeerKAT Science Workshop will be held at the ...

The MeerKAT radio telescope array is finally up and running in South Africa, after a decade of design and construction. To show off what the facility can do, astronomers have pointed all 64 antennas ...

From the Byrd telescope in West Virginia, to the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico, to the MeerKAT system in South Africa, the world is not hurting for gigantic radio telescopes. These large arrays are ...

The ambitious Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project has started to bear fruit. Despite being only a quarter of its final size, the MeerKAT radio telescope under construction in the Karoo region in ...

The first time the MeerKAT telescope turned its eyes to the sky, it saw more than 1,200 previously unknown galaxies. Located in South Africa, MeerKAT announced its first galactic harvest on July 16.

The first time the MeerKAT telescope turned its eyes to the sky, it saw more than 1,200 previously unknown galaxies. Located in South Africa, MeerKAT announced its first galactic harvest on July 16.