SALT Funding Approved
On 1 June 1998 during his budget speech to Parliament, Mr Lionel Mtshali, Minister of Arts, Culture, Science & Technology announced the South African government's plans to build a Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) as a...[more]
Interim SALT Board
The first meeting of the `interim' SALT Board was held on July 9 and 10 at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh. Dr Richard Griffiths of the Department of Astrophysics (CMU) hosted this meeting of the potential SALT...[more]
SALT - Site Evaluation
Recently a program of site inter-comparison and characterisation has begun at Sutherland. Dr Andre Erasmus has been hired as a consultant meteorologist in order to ascertain the best position on the Sutherland plateau for...[more]
Cape Observers Discover New Type of Star
Good for Vibrations For the third time, astronomers at the Cape have discovered a new type of 'pulsating' star (a star that changes its shape or size enough so that the light we receive here on Earth varies significantly). The...[more]
How Big is the Universe?
Answer from South Africa Prof Michael Feast of the University of Cape Town has led a team of astronomers whose work with data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) satellite Hipparcos sheds new light on both the scale and the...[more]
ESA's Hipparcos Satellite Revises the Scale of the Cosmos
The observable Universe may be about 10% larger than astronomers have supposed, according to early results from the European Space Agency's Hipparcos mission. Investigators claim that the measuring ruler used since 1912 to gauge...[more]
Last updated: 26 May 2011
