CAPE TOWN, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- South African researchers have discovered the most distant ultra-steep-spectrum radio halo ever observed.

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 ...

The Minister for Science and Technology of South Africa and the President of the Max-Planck-Society (MPG) today announced that the MPG and the Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn ...

A telescope built in South Africa is revealing new details about the Milky Way. “It’s the clearest view ever made of the center of our galaxy,” chief scientist Fernando Camilo said of images produced ...

A huge new telescope array in South Africa has just returned its stunning first image, giving us a glimpse into the distant universe. Called MeerKAT, this radio telescope array currently has 16 dishes ...

A new radio astronomical receiver project of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy has received full funding by the Max Planck Society. The scientific defined frequency range from 1.6 to 3.5 ...

The MeerKAT radio telescope array is finally up and running in South Africa, after a decade of design and construction. To show off what the facility can do, astronomers have pointed all 64 antennas ...

Prina Patel works for SKA South Africa. She receives funding from SKA South Africa. She is affiliated with SKA South Africa and The University of the Western Cape. Something hugely important is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The MeerKAT Telescope is a radio telescope currently being built in South Africa. As it stands, it currently has 16 out of the planned 64 dishes integrated into its telescope array. That didn’t stop ...

The MeerKAT radio telescope in the Northern Cape of South Africa has discovered an object which rapidly brightened by more than a factor of three over a period of three weeks. This is the first new ...

A South African radio telescope has revealed hundreds of galaxies in a tiny corner of the universe where only 70 had been seen before. The images, taken by MeerKAT telescope, are an indication of the ...