Africa
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- Very Small Array (VSA)
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- Mauritius Radio Telescope
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- C-BASS South
- HartRAO 26 m
- HartRAO XDM
- Indlebe
- KAT-7
- MeerKAT
- Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER)
- Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
MeerKAT
Organizations: National Research Foundation of South Africa; Department of Science and Technology (South African government); SKA South Africa Project
Location: Northern Cape, South Africa |
Latitude: -30.721 |
Longitude: 21.411
First light: July 16, 2016
Telescope style: Interferometer
Wavelength: 3 cm to 30 cm |
Frequency: 1 GHz to 10 GHz
Photograph from SKA South Africa
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News articles:
- Space.com — MeerKAT Telescope Opens Its Eyes to Hundreds of New Galaxies
- National Geographic — Powerful New Telescope Finds Whopping 1,300 Galaxies at Once
- Astronomy magazine — The largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere returns its first image
- CNN — Super telescope finds hundreds of previously undetectable galaxies
- International Business Times — South Africa's MeerKAT Telescope Snaps Its First Image, Revealing Distant Galaxies and Black Holes
- RT News — World's potentially biggest telescope discovers 1,300 new galaxies at 25% capacity
- Daily Mail — The universe as you've never seen it before: Groundbreaking radio telescope finds 1,300 galaxies in tiny corner of the sky where only 70 were known about before
- The Guardian — South African super-telescope reveals distant galaxies and black holes