A Phoenix Rises: SALT Reveals Massive Star WOH G64 is Still a Red Supergiant Astronomers using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) have solved a cosmic mystery surrounding one of the most extr...
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been awarded a prestigious Science Diplomacy Award at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), held from 24–28 November at ...
SALT Turns 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Discovery This month marks a major milestone for South African and global astronomy — the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years since ...
Astronomers using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will soon be able to hunt for and study planets orbiting distant stars. This exciting new science capability for SALT stems from the add...
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. ...
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 Mag...
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 astrono...
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 ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that the orbital period of the asteroid Dimorphos around its parent asteroid Didymos has successfully been altered after it impac...
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and the University of Canterbury’s Mount John Observatory in New Zealand have recently discovered a system of four stars orbiting each other. After initia...