Some of the MeerKAT’s 64 dishes, which astronomers use to collect huge amounts of data. © South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) April 11, 2022 Combined power of two telescopes is helping crack the mystery of eerie rings in the sky Jordan Collier, Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy Complementary science will be at the heart of the Square Kilometre Array.
MeerKAT, the precursor to the massive Square Kilometre Array, allows astronomers to gather huge amounts of data about galaxies. Photo by Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images August 23, 2021 Analysis of 2 000 galaxies using the MeerKat radio telescope reveals fresh insights Fangxia An, Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy Technology is allowing astronomers to study and analyse galaxies in far more detail than was previously possible.