CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - The Southern Hemisphere's largest single optical telescope with the power to study the most distant galaxies was inaugurated Thursday — a giant eye in the sky that took ...

Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth.

In some galaxies, large amounts of... The Conversation. South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s. Story by Jacinta Delhaize, University of Cape Town ...

MADISON — Five years after breaking ground on a South African mountaintop near the edge of the Kalahari desert, astronomers today (Sept. 1, 2005) released the first images captured by the Sou… ...

The positions in the table below reflect the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)'s position overall, domestically, within their sector, and in various subject areas based on their Share. Each ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) can gather more than 25 times as much light as any existing telescope in Africa, enabling it to detect a candle flame as far away as the moon.

University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley spent most of November in South Africa helping launch one of the world's biggest telescopes into operation. Funded in part by the UW Astronomy Department, ...

Astronomers have detected a powerful radiowave laser, known as a megamaser, in space. This record-breaking megamaser is the most distant one ever observed at 5 billion light-years away from Earth.

However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the past five years about 11,000 giants have been discovered.