📢Several MSc and PhD bursary opportunities for 2023 are now available in our Department📢 The deadline for application is July, 8th, 2022! Have a look and follow the instructions on our website: ast.uct.ac.za/2023-msc-and-p… NRF/SARAO National Research Foundation of South Africa AfricaAstronomy

sneak a peek … #JWST

And so here they are… the first images (and spectrum) captured by #JWST All the images and explanations are available here: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage… Enjoy! #UnfoldTheUniverse

Many UCT astronomy affiliates are contributing to the #IAUGA2022 happening in Busan, South Korea, till August 11th. Indeed we all look forward to host the next International Astronomical Union (IAU) GA in Cape Town in 2024! AfricaAstronomy

“A Journey to the observable UNIVERSE along UNIVERSity avenue”. This practical on distances was held on August 3 for the introductory astronomy course. 1st-year students had the opportunity to experience distances in the solar system and beyond by walking along University Avenue.

Congratulations to our PhD student Malebo Ella for being one of the three recipient of the prestigious AfAS 2022 Seed Research Grant award!#WomenInScience #UCT #Astronomy UCT Postgrad Studies AfricaAstronomy africanastronomicalsociety.org/2022/08/25/afa…

Advanced space weather centre for Africa to be launched in Hermanus sabcnews.com/sabcnews/advan…

After 1.5 years of global procurement and construction activities around the world, today we enter a new era by officially marking the start of #SKAconstruction on site in Australia 🇦🇺 and South Africa 🇿🇦! Watch our film 🎥

At the SKAO Construction Commencement Ceremony SKA Mid-Event held at the CTICC yesterday. Celebrating great strides in astronomy globally and the contributions to the advancements of astronomy in Africa. SKA Observatory NRF/SARAO #astronomy #astronomy2024 #SKAO #africa

Exciting times for Astronomy in South Africa! SKA Observatory

This week we are hosting #phiscc23 the SKA Pathfinder HI Survey Coordination Committee conference! During the week there will be talks and exciting visualisation demos by the IDIA Visualisation Lab #IDIAvislab To know more have a look to the program here: astro.rug.nl/~phiscc2023/pr…

Busy visualisation demo session at lunch today at #phiscc23! UCT BigIDIA NRF/SARAO #idiavislab

MeerKAT is a science-eager 64-dish radio telescope in the heart of the South African Karoo. This world operates at maser-coordinated "Karoo Telescope Time" - a hyper precise time standard ideal for pulsar timing science as done by the Meertime project meertime.org

The news is out! The NANOGrav PFC pulsar timing array collaboration has detected a background of cosmic gravitational waves rippling through our Universe! Let’s talk about it! (Full press conference tomorrow, nanograv.org/news/2023Annou…) 1/n

In eight new papers, NANOGrav PFC presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications #pulsartimingarrays #GravitationalWaves astrobites.org/2023/06/28/dro…

Let this be heard loud and clear! Today's GW result stem from tireless efforts of countless people associated with the IPTA and beyond all around the world. Apart from the paper authors; we'd like to highlight the efforts of the Telescope operators and sys-admins.

Congratulations for this amazing discoveries to all the team involved!

Signs of Gravitational Wave detected!

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. 👩‍🔬🪐 See what she’s working on: youtube.com/watch?v=AqawZH…

HOT from the press! Astronomers from an international team including some from our department reveal cosmic ribbon around rare galaxy using the BigIDIA VR software vislab.idia.ac.za/research-csiro… #vr #astronomy IAU GA 2024 🌍 UCT UCT Research UCT Faculty Of Science