The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory has released a stunning new image taken by the MeerKAT telescope showing the complex centre the Milky Way.
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The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory has announced that a group of 20 galaxies have been discovered with the MeerKAT telescope.
Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa’s powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo.
Higher education, science & innovation minister Blade Nzimande said the 64-dish MeerKAT, the pre-cursor to the Square Kilometer Array, will be expanded by 20 dishes at a cost of R800-million.
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (Hirax) project is an international collaboration being led by scientists from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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