Researchers from the Rhodes Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies (RATT), in partnership with collaborators from SARAO, Observatoire Paris Meudon, the University of Oxford, the Breakthrough Listen initiative, the University of Cape Town, and other institutions, have established a project to mine the MeerKAT telescope’s archive for previously overlooked transient radio sources.

Twelve learners who are part of the Robotics teams from Carnarvon High School, Carnarvon Primary School and their coaches had the opportunity to visit the Amazon Web Services Skills Centre on Friday, 31 January 2025.

Diligent observing with the MeerKAT radio telescope in the Northern Karoo, of a network of rapidly spinning neutron stars over the last five years, has unveiled additional evidence for the presence of a low frequency gravitational wave background — an underlying stretching and squeezing of spacetime on which our planet Earth bobs.

Twenty students from Kenya and Madagascar have been participating in radio astronomy training at SARAO’s Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) from 4 to 15 November 2024.