A UCT-led team has used South Africa’s MeerKAT and Salt to reveal a vast hidden supercluster lurking behind the Milky Way.
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South African astronomers have detected the most distant and powerful natural radio laser ever observed.
South Africa’s SKA-Mid telescope comes alive as “first fringes” confirm it is now a working scientific instrument.
Astronomers working with South Africa’s SKA telescope are pushing authorities to ensure that any licensing agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink will protect their groundbreaking observations.
MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary: the plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light years.
The MeerKAT telescope project has emerged as a beacon of innovation and opportunity on the African continent.
Stellenbosch-based engineers have received a R200-million contract to produce 60 receivers for the SKA radio telescope.
Machine learning is helping astronomers work through vasts quantities of data quickly and more accurately than poring over it manually.
Scientists have found eight strange new signals they can’t yet explain, while South Africa’s MeerKAT has been enlisted in the search for ET.
South African officials and scientists on Monday celebrated a milestone towards building the world’s largest radio astronomy instrument.