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A South African Telescope Just Discovered 20 New Galaxies
07 Jul 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has been hard at work uncovering a large galaxy group, which is likely the most neutral hydrogen gas-rich group ever discovered.
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SA’s Most Powerful Telescope Will Actively Search For Aliens
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to project director Bernie Fanaroff, the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be looking for signs of life on other planets. Awesome! The SKA project will play host to the most powerful radio astronomy telescope in world once the project is completed. But construction is only set to begin in 2017, so don’t hold your breath […]
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Why Exactly Are We Spending R1,9 Billion On Telescopes?
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A staggering R1,9 billion has been allocated over three years for the The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and MeerKAT radio telescope projects. That is a lot of money on a project that South Africans don’t understand. According to the Square Kilometre Array website, the SKA is not the average telescope system. Rather than filtering light waves […]
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