South Africans will be treated to a rare celestial show on the evening of Sunday, 7 September.
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Astronauts will convene in Cape Town next week for the first General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Africa.
South Africa’s long history of astronomical research began when French academic Nicolas-Louis de La Caille visited Cape Town from 1751 to 1753 and undertook a careful examination of every square degree of the southern sky.
Researchers from the South African Astronomical Observatory have helped find a new exoplanet, 320 light years from Earth, that exhibits unusual characteristics. SAAO, with other researchers from around the world, found