South African officials and scientists on Monday celebrated a milestone towards building the world's largest radio astronomy instrument, which is co-hosted with Australia and aims to unlock ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will enable scientists to view stars and galaxies a billion times too faint to be visible to the naked eye -- about as luminous as a candle's flame on ...

The largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is due for its official launch next week, putting South Africa on the map as a destination for stargazing tourists.

Groundbreaking For Southern African Large TelescopeMrs Marina Joubert National Research Foundation +27 12 481-4055 [email protected] 1 September is celebrated as Spring Day in South Africa – but ...

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Construction has finally begun on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in Australia and South Africa. Here's what the project will entail.

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory.

For the first time, the world's largest network of radio telescopes, EVN, has observed together with South Africa's MeerKAT, the southern hemisphere's most powerful radio telescope.

South Africa has taken one giant leap into exoplanet discovery capabilities and astronomical research with the launch of the PRime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (Prime) telescope.