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 MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that MeerKAT is already the best radio telescope of its kind in the ...
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 MeerKAT First Light image of the sky, released today by Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, shows unambiguously that MeerKAT is already the best radio telescope of its kind in the ...
Prina Patel works for SKA South Africa. She receives funding from SKA South Africa. She is affiliated with SKA South Africa and The University of the Western Cape. Something hugely important is ...
A powerful telescope in South Africa has detected a space laser, known as a "megamaser," that is 5 billion lightyears from Earth. Scientists named it Nkalakatha, an isiZulu word meaning "big boss." ...
Fangxia An is affiliated with Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of the Western Cape. Galaxies – massive collections of gas, ...
An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ...
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 ...
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