South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array has already amassed quite a string of feats. It has provided new information about…
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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…
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. They’ll…
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980) This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious…
The discovery of a neutron star emitting unusual radio signals is rewriting our understanding of these unique star systems. My…
Recent decades have seen remarkable growth in astronomy on the African continent. Africa enjoys pristine dark skies and vast radio…
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts. Pulsars are the…