First detected accidentally by US military satellites in the late 1960s, cosmic explosions known as gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have come to…
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South Africa and stargazing have a particularly long history but there’s a time and a place for everything. That time…
New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world – and beyond. Among them are the Giant…
We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies,…
Since time immemorial, humans around the world have gazed up in wonder at the night sky. The starry night sky…
South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array has already amassed quite a string of feats. It has provided new information about…
The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the…
We often think of astronomy as a visual science with beautiful images of the universe. However, astronomers use a wide…
The ingredients for life are spread throughout the universe. While Earth is the only known place in the universe with life,…
MeerKAT, if you’ve been paying attention, is South Africa’s newest radio telescope array. Part of the ongoing Square Kilometre Array…