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South Africa: Astronomers Used Machine Learning to Mine Data From South Africa's Meerkat Telescope - What They Found
The Conversation Africa, 5 April 2023
New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world - and beyond. Among them are the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in… Read more »
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Africa: MeerKAT - Why South Africa's Massive Astronomy Project Matters
GroundUp, 27 February 2023
Amish Patel is a Signal Processing Engineer with the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. He gave the second Science for the People Seminar. Read more »
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South Africa: MeerKAT Discovers a Distant Galaxy Has Very Large Hydrogen Atoms
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, 15 February 2023
While using the MeerKAT radio telescope to study a distant galaxy towards PKS 1830-211, scientists discovered something unexpected: gas clouds made up of some of the largest… Read more »
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South Africa: Square Kilometre Array's Scope Shows African Astronomers Bright Future
SciDev.Net, 7 December 2022
African astronomers point to a golden age of astronomy on the continent as work starts in South Africa on the world's biggest telescope. Read more »