Huge congratulations to SAAO/UCT PhD Student, Munira Hoosain, who was recently awarded the DSI-Ndoni Mcunu Fellowship in the Doctoral Awards category at the Department of Science and Innovation: Women in Science awards. 👩🔬🪐
See what she’s working on: https://t.co/Jm8MeWJMdC
In eight new papers, @NANOGrav presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications #pulsartimingarrays#GravitationalWaves
https://t.co/FXyY6ZqnLN
The news is out! The @NANOGrav pulsar timing array collaboration has detected a background of cosmic gravitational waves rippling through our Universe! Let’s talk about it!
(Full press conference tomorrow, https://t.co/7hsBd7IWdO)
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Let this be heard loud and clear!
Today's GW result stem from tireless efforts of countless people associated with the IPTA and beyond all around the world.
Apart from the paper authors; we'd like to highlight the efforts of the
Telescope operators and sys-admins.
We see early signs of a Gravitational Wave background in our combined dataset with @EPTAGW.
These results corroborate with those from @NANOGrav and PPTA @CSIRO_ATNF@ARC_OzGRav
Read along in this thread to know this discovery was made and it's consequences!
MeerKAT is a science-eager 64-dish radio telescope in the heart of the South African Karoo. This world operates at maser-coordinated "Karoo Telescope Time" - a hyper precise time standard ideal for pulsar timing science as done by the Meertime project https://t.co/54RdKns91h
This week we are hosting #phiscc23 the SKA Pathfinder HI Survey Coordination Committee conference! During the week there will be talks and exciting visualisation demos by the IDIA Visualisation Lab #IDIAvislab
To know more have a look to the program here: https://t.co/3jKvHqf9Vm
At the SKAO Construction Commencement Ceremony SKA Mid-Event held at the CTICC yesterday. Celebrating great strides in astronomy globally and the contributions to the advancements of astronomy in Africa.
@SKAO@SKA_Africa#astronomy#astronomy2024#SKAO#africa
“A Journey to the observable UNIVERSE along UNIVERSity avenue”. This practical on distances was held on August 3 for the introductory astronomy course. 1st-year students had the opportunity to experience distances in the solar system and beyond by walking along University Avenue.
Many UCT astronomy affiliates are contributing to the #IAUGA2022 happening in Busan, South Korea, till August 11th. Indeed we all look forward to host the next @IAU_org GA in Cape Town in 2024! @AfricaAstronomy
Busan we’re here! We look forward to rubbing shoulders with the astronomy community and showcasing what South African astronomy is contributing towards the industry. Come visit us at stands 28,29,30 at XXXI IAU General Assembly. #astronomy2024
And so here they are… the first images (and spectrum) captured by #JWST All the images and explanations are available here: https://t.co/pkZTEhJpMG Enjoy! #UnfoldTheUniverse
👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B
📢Several MSc and PhD bursary opportunities for 2023 are now available in our Department📢
The deadline for application is July, 8th, 2022! Have a look and follow the instructions on our website: https://t.co/aonDgSDsLu
@SKA_Africa@NRF_News@AfricaAstronomy