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SARAO Electronics team exhibits at SANSA Open Day

The SARAO Electronics team packed their gear and hit the road on Saturday, 3 October 2026 to join the SANSA Space Science ...
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Big Data Africa School 2026 currently underway in Cape Town

The 2026 Big Data Africa School started on Monday, 5 October 2026, in Cape Town, marking the 6th edition of the popular ...
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Groups of all ages hosted at third SARAO Public Open Day for 2026

The third SARAO Open Day for 2026 was attended by members of all ages and from different parts of the country, on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. Hosted by the SARAO Communication and Stakeholder ...
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South Africa’s MeerKAT combines with NASA’s Webb to pinpoint the most distant cosmic Fast Radio Burst

Record breaker dates back to just 3 billion years after the big bang. In research published today in the journal Science, ...
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Innovators honoured at first SAAO Innovation Awards ceremony

The SARAO Innovation Management office hosted the inaugural South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) Innovation Awards ...
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A black hole in the Milky Way aims its jet at us

Astronomers have found the first convincing “microblazar” in our Galaxy — a star with a black hole orbiting around it, firing a beam of near-light-speed matter almost straight towards Earth. Its ...