Roger Deane

Director: Inter-University Institute for Data-Intensive Astronomy; Professor of Astronomy: University of Cape Town; Extraordinary Prof: University of Pretoria

[University of Pretoria @UPTuks]

RECORD-BREAKING DETECTION: With the help of the MeerKAT telescope, a UP-led team of South African astronomers has detected the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever, a natural radio “laser” produced by merging galaxies more than 8 billion light-years away. Read more: https://t.co/LBujvEqfCj

Photo credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

#UPResearchMatters #MeerKAT

[NRF/SARAO @SKA_Africa]

MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe

University of Pretoria-led team opens a new frontier using the power of MeerKAT and strong gravitational lensing

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away, opening a new radio astronomy frontier.

Read full article
https://t.co/Y6dP50qU2w

#meerkat #radioastronomy #science #radiotelescope

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Proud of Dr Thato Manamela who led our paper reporting MeerKAT’s discovery of a record-breaking “cosmic laser” announced today. He was the first postgraduate student to join the @UPTuks astronomy group I started in 2018, and I'm grateful he stuck with me until now as a postdoc!

[NRF/SARAO @SKA_Africa]

MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe

University of Pretoria-led team opens a new frontier using the power of MeerKAT and strong gravitational lensing

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion light-years away, opening a new radio astronomy frontier.

Read full article
https://t.co/Y6dP50qU2w

#meerkat #radioastronomy #science #radiotelescope

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

If you’re need of “massive heart”:

[Scrumming Flyhalf @scrumming_ten]

Saturday is the anniversary of "Who was Makazole playing for that day?" 😭😭😭😭😭

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Great to attend my first South Pole Telescope SMG Annual Collaboration Meeting in Vancouver last week. We explored the strong synergies between MeerKAT and the SPT in studying the distant universe (and enjoyed this spectacular view over Vancouver from our meeting room @UBC)

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

A huge congrats to my former PhD student (now postdoc), Dr Charissa Button, the first PhD graduate from the @UPTuks Astrophysics group I started in 2018.

[University of Pretoria @UPTuks]

#UPGraduation2024: History in the making! Meet UP’s first PhD graduate in Astrophysics, Dr Charissa Button. Read more: https://t.co/7EVLK7QgxS

#HelloTuksAlumni #UniversityOfPretoria

[Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) @StatsSA]

"We love our Kantry" 🇿🇦

Die Bokke bringing the 🏆🏆🏆🏆 back home; where it belongs! @Springboks

#Springboks #RWCFinal    #RWC2023

[Wits University @WitsUniversity]

WITS Rugby World Cup Final
Screening | We are #StongerTogether

#RWC2023Final #Springboks #StrongerTogether 🏆🏆🇿🇦 #RSAvNZL

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

I also just can't wait to see @SKA_Africa MeerKAT's contribution to this new window of the universe.

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Huge congratulations, indeed! Using rapidly spinning neutron stars spread throughout our Milky Way galaxy to measure gravitational waves generated by orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in the more distant universe - experiments just don't get cooler than this.

[Matthew Bailes @matthewbailes]

Congratulations to @CSIRO_ATNF's Parkes Pulsar Timing Array, @NANOGrav , the #EPTA and #CPTA on their advances towards nanohertz gravitational wave astrophysics using supermassive black hole binaries! Can't wait to finish manicuring the @SKA_Africa MeerKAT data to join the party!

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Huge congrats to the @SARAO MeerKAT Team!

[NRF/SARAO @SKA_Africa]

MeerKAT telescope team honoured with prestigious Royal Astronomical Society Award @RoyalAstroSoc

#SARAO #RadioAstronomy #Science #MeerKAT #Telescope

Read More: https://t.co/ajeV6K4xGz

[Wits University @WitsUniversity]

A new, future-savvy world is coming to Wits University. Prepare to be immersed in a world of new experiences.

Follow Wits University’s digital channels on November 21st to find out more.

Are you ready?

#Wits100 #WitsForGood

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

That and “space lasers” 🤣

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Wow @WitsUniversity, that was impressive #Wits100

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

How did I miss this?!

[Stephen Colbert @StephenAtHome]

“Okay, now let’s do a silly one.”

[The Conversation Africa @TC_Africa]

Bernie Fanaroff is a world-renowned radio astronomer who, while working on his PhD at Cambridge University in the early 1970s, made a breakthrough discovery about radio galaxies https://t.co/jbuOSmiXLN

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

I cannot imagine how much grit, determination, and passion it must take to go from the dusty streets of the Katlehong township in Apartheid South Africa to being honoured by the Royal Society and count Newton, Darwin, and Hawking as peers.

[Wits University @WitsUniversity]

(1/2) The Royal Society (UK) announced today, 10 May 2022, that Wits Vice-Chancellor & Principal, Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi has been appointed as a Fellow of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific academies. Read more: https://t.co/QX945iiH22

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Wow, the @ehtelescope is just spectacular in all its extremes

[Event Horizon 'Scope @ehtelescope]

The EHT has telescopes in some of the most remote areas of the world, including the south pole! Here the @SPTelescope with its friend @BICEP_KECK during the #EHT2022 campaign. Video credit @aman_chokshi

[Roger Deane @RoogeDeane]

Indeed, an African station would greatly enhance the black hole imaging enterprise pioneered by our globe-spanning @ehtelescope Collaboration, particularly for the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way.

[nature @Nature]

Major African radio telescope in Namibia will help to image black holes https://t.co/76VP8qP0Sy