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. She is currently working with Dr. Rosalind Skelton, Assoc Prof Sarah Blythe and......
AstroQuiz is an exciting initiative by SAASTA originally founded by the SciBono Discovery Centre in 2005. This competition has since 2005 been captivating the minds of young learners across the nation. Hosted on a user-friendly app developed by the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO), this......
The discovery of a rare type of spinning white dwarf star in a binary star system – only the second one known – provides a new understanding of the role of magnetic fields in stellar evolution. White dwarfs are small dense stars, typically the size......
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in collaboration with South African astronomers, have discovered a rare white dwarf binary star system, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, that sheds new light on supernova explosions. The discovery of this system, named [HP99] 159,......
International Team Announces Discovery of Super-Hot Stars Using Southern African Large Telescope Using the largest single optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, an international team of astronomers has discovered eight of the hottest stars in the universe, all with surfaces hotter than 100,000 degrees. The......
Scientists looking at data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and long-slit spectroscopy using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) have found that the so-called ‘Peekaboo’ dwarf galaxy (HIPASS J1131–31) is extremely metal-poor. The discovery is detailed in a paper published recently in the Monthly......
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