It’s difficult to get jets - powerful, lightning fast particles - to give up their secrets. The new Square Kilometre Array radio telescope could hold the key to solving jets’ mysteries.
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What’s particularly exciting about “first light” images from South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope is that they prove Africa is a rising star in the world of astronomy.
Collaboration is one of the keys to making African science soar: when the continent’s universities work together, they can produce amazing results.
Dark energy is a completely unknown source making up 70% of the universe. Will any of the new projects designed to find out what it is succeed?
When looking for evidence of some of the universe’s mysterious high energy particles, why not enlist the help of our nearest neighbour: the moon.
A new policy on research outputs and funding will be introduced in South Africa in 2016. But it leaves too much unchanged from the old policy.
Citizen science will ensure that the skies have no limit when it comes to research, as ordinary people are encouraged to take part in simple acts of exploration.
Principales colaboradores
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Post-doctoral researcher in Astrophysics, University of the Western Cape
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Astronomer, International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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South African Research Chair in Physical Cosmology, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
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Head of Department, University of Johannesburg
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Doctoral Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Astrophysics, UCL
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Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Astrophysics, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor Department of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Cape Town
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PhD student (Radio Astronomy), University of Leeds
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Manager of the Ghana Radio Telescope Observatory, Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute
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Senior Lecturer: Entrepreneurship Stellenbosch Business School, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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PhD Student, University of Cape Town
