South African astronomy started an important journey two decades ago, when an initiative to attract and train future scientists in the field welcomed its first group of students under the National ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...

What is the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)? The SKA will be the world’s largest radio telescope when it comes online in the coming decade. It will consist of thousands of dishes and antennas spread out ...

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In an unprecedented step for South African astronomy, the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere is joining forces with a major global observatory to observe and analyse celestial events ...

On 16 April in Cape Town, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs. Naledi Pandor, launched the IAU Global Office of Astronomy for Development at the headquarters of the South African ...

Charles Takalana of the African Astronomical Society to discuss the evolution of astronomy across the continent. Charles Takalana, head of secretariat at the African Astronomical Society. “My interest ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Papers from the Ghana Eclipse Conference held March 27-31, 2006 in Cape Coast, Ghana. Chasing the shadow of the moon: The 2006 Ghana Eclipse Conference / Jarita C. Holbrook -- The use of ethnographic ...

The Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD), a partnership of the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the International Astronomical Union (IAU) under the Department of Science, Technology and ...

Patricia Ann Whitelock receives research funding from the National Research Foundation and the University of Cape Town.. Daniel Cunnama receives funding from the National Research Foundation. He works ...

Thanks to new sophisticated techniques and state-of-the-art facilities, astronomy has entered a new era in which the depth of the sky can finally be accessed. The ingredients of our cosmic home, the ...