South Africa’s Karoo region is a vast semi-arid area that stretches across four of the country’s provinces. It is sparsely populated and renowned for its wide open spaces. In the heart of this ...

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.

Dynamical insights from magnetohydrodynamic simulations First Author: Gourab GiriAuthors: Joydeep Bagchi, Kshitij Thorat, ...

In addition, the MeerKAT team have supported the development of science and technology in Africa and stress-tested technology for the Square Kilometre Array. MeerKAT is a radio telescope consisting of ...

The two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope. In the background is the sky as seen in optical light. Overlaid in red is the radio light from the enormous radio galaxies ...

A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within the dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters'', using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope. Millisecond pulsars ...

This provides a way to keep the sensitivity and resolution of a large telescope, while building more cost-effective smaller dishes. See Fig 1 for a view of some of the dishes of the 64-dish MeerKAT ...

The vast realm probed by radio astronomers is one invisible to the naked eye, and even most kinds of telescopes. Now, thanks ...