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Minister Nzimande welcomes South Africa’s hosting of NASA-funded Hazardous Asteroid Tracking Telescope

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31 January, 2022
Observations from amateur astronomers lead to the discovery of a warped disc around a black hole in our Milky Way

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27 October, 2021
Astronomers see white dwarf “switch on and off” for first time

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21 October, 2021
Researchers discover three super-massive black holes merging together in our nearby universe

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16 September, 2021
eROSITA and SALT witness the awakening of massive black holes

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28 April, 2021
Connect South Africa – Call for applications

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14 April, 2021
The bicentenary of the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) and the Unveiling of the SAAO as a National Heritage Site

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13 October, 2020
Accreting pulsar caught in the act of ‘powering up’

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10 June, 2020
SALT contributes to a new understanding of novae

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14 April, 2020
Planetary nebula WR 72 has hydrogen-poor knots, study finds

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17 January, 2020
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