Tag Archives: Radio Telescope

SUTHERLAND NORTHERN CAPE- Since the construction of the Southern Africa Larger Telescope – SALT – at Sutherland in the Northern Cape, the town has gone star-raving mad. A number of businesses are modelled around the galaxies and the stars, bringing in ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), the largest optical telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, has played an important role as part of the international Dark Energy Survey’s (DES, https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/) quest to pin down dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of ...

THE NORTHERN CAPE – SALT and SAAO telescopes partake in an unprecedented international collaboration to investigate the origin of the first detection of gravitational waves produced by two colliding neutron stars. The discovery marks the birth of a new era in astrophysics, ...

THE NORTHERN CAPE – An unprecedented international collaboration of telescopes has lead to the first direct detection of gravitational waves – ripples in space and time – in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. The ...

WATCH – SALT and SAAO telescopes partake in an unprecedented international collaboration to investigate the origin of the first detection of gravitational waves produced by two colliding neutron stars. The discovery marks the birth of a new era in astrophysics, the first ...

AS ASTRONOMERS from around the world gather to discuss the scientific potential of MeerKAT, the telescope being built in the Northern Cape has produced its first remarkable image. This week an observation using just four of the eventual 64 dishes ...