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MeerKAT paints a mesmerising portrait of the Milky Way

26 January 2022 Astronomy Now

The MeerKAT radio telescope has produced a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way’s central regions, providing a new view of known and newly-discovered phenomena.

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MeerKAT radio telescope images Milky Way’s blazing heart

15 July 2018 Astronomy Now

South Africa’s newly inaugurated 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array, has imaged the heart of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, revealing long, magnetised filaments and the blazing core where a supermassive black hole lurks unseen at optical wavelengths.

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Major supercluster of galaxies found hidden by the Milky Way

17 November 2016 Astronomy Now

An international team of astronomers has discovered a previously unknown major concentration of galaxies in the constellation Vela, which they have dubbed the Vela supercluster. The gravitational attraction from this large mass concentration in our cosmic neighbourhood may have an important effect on the motion of our Local Group of galaxies.

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SKA: 2016 Square Kilometre Array science conference opens in Goa, India

7 November 2016 Astronomy Now

When constructed, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the world’s largest radio telescope. The SKA project’s 2016 science conference, “Science for the SKA Generation,” has kicked off in Goa, India. Some 200 astronomers from around the globe have travelled to attend the week-long conference.

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News Headlines

  • Supermassive black holes not impressive enough? Try the ultramassive version
    29 March 2023
  • James Webb’s infrared vision lets astronomers take an exoplanet’s temperature
    28 March 2023
  • NASA gearing up for OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample recovery
    27 March 2023
  • A simpler, more mundane explanation for ‘Oumuamua’s strange behaviour
    23 March 2023
  • Japanese Hakuto-R moon lander slips into lunar orbit
    22 March 2023
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