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South Africa vs Australia in world’s largest telescope bid
It’s not just on the cricket fields that South Africa and Australia are arch-rivals. Now there’s a mighty battle raging at technological level to host the world’s most powerful telescope that aims to find the answers to the burning questions of the origins of the human race and whether there is life elsewhere in the universe.
South Africa is ready to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in the heart of the almost desert landscape of the Karoo in the Northern Cape province, and has already gone a long way towards the project by developing the MeerKAT (sic) system, the largest telescope yet.
Australia is also edging ahead to secure the bid, which is expected to be finalised in the first half of this year by a consortium of the major international science funding agencies,...
The ex-unionist behind the SKA telescope
Avery Carpenter
BERNIE Fanaroff, the man behind SA’s bid to build the world’s most powerful radio telescope, is no stranger to power – he once served as deputy director-general for star of the Struggle, Nelson Mandela.
Now he works for the stars of the universe.
Fanaroff is committed to building the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) telescope in SA.
“We have an outstanding site for the SKA, as well as the people and expertise to build and operate this mega-instrument,” he said.
The self-effacing Fanaroff, who has driven SA’s astonishing bid, is something of a renaissance man.
He has a PhD in radio astronomy and was a formidable union leader in the 1980s.
He was asked to run the SA SKA Project in 2003 by Rob Adam, then director-general of Science and Technology.
“I...
Help African kids to see stars
David Hughes of Sunderland Astronomical Society who is starting a new campaign to send telescopes and binoculars to Ethiopia. He is seen hera at Washington Wetlands Trust Cygnus Observatory.
By tom.white@northeast-press.co.uk">Tom White Published on Tuesday 24 January 2012 10:50
STARGAZERS on Wearside will give children in Ethiopia an out-of-this-world experience.
A new project is being launched by the Sunderland Astronomical Society to send telescopes to the Horn of Africa so pupils there can enjoy the wonders of the universe.
Their aim is to collect hundreds of unwanted binoculars from across the North East and to pull them apart so they can use the lenses inside.
David Hughes, vice-chairman of the Sunderland Astronomical Society, said: “A friend of ours called...
The Gods must be crazy: Metal ‘Teletubby head’ falls near Namibian village
Mystery surrounds a 13-pound unidentified flying object which fell from the skies in northern Namibia. Despite efforts by researchers to identify its composition and origins, nobody has been able to establish where the metal sphere came from.
The ball, weighing 13 pounds (5.9 kilograms) and measuring 14 inches (35 centimeters) in diameter hit the ground next to the Namibian village of Omanatunga in the Omunsati region in the north of the country.
Locals reported hearing a series of loud explosions before the sphere was found by a farmer sometime between November 15 and November 20. The metal ball was found some 60 feet (18.3 meters) away from a small crater it is assumed to have created when it fell.
Ever since, local officials and researchers have been kept busy investigating...
Carl Sagan and “The Sounds of Earth”
If, billions of years from now, extraterrestrials were to come across one of our far-flung interstellar space probes, what could they learn of us? In the 1970s, as NASA prepared to send its first probes beyond the distant reaches of the solar system, this was the question that worried renowned scientist and author Carl Sagan.
Sagan, who died 15 years ago on this day, was enormously influential in a number of ways—he was a prolific researcher and publisher of articles on planetary science, and his books and popular PBS series Cosmos inspired a generation with the remarkable discoveries of astronomy and astrophysics. But his most long-lasting and significant impact might indeed be the time capsule he placed on the NASA probes: a gold-plated record titled “The Sounds of...
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25 Queen Victoria Street (PO Box 61) - Cape Town 8000, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
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25 Queen Victoria Street (PO Box 61) - Cape Town 8000, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Type: Museum Address: 25 Queen Victoria Street (PO Box 61) - Cape Town 8000 Country: SOUTH AFRICA Opened since 1958 Dome of 15.2m including 140 seats Oriented Yes Tilt No Projection system Konica-Minolta : MS-15
Telephone+27 21-481-3900
Fax+27 21-481 3990
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BP 18, Cité du 20 Août Constantine- 25000, Algeria
SIRIUS, Who are You? The Association was created on June 1996 at Constantine, the capital of Eastern Algeria and has the statute of a Wilaya based cultural, educational, and scientific association. The actual Web site of the Association, although in c ...
Telephone213-71-56.06.58
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Route de l'Observatoir Bp 63 Bouzareah - Alger - Algerie
The Algiers Observatory was built in the late nineteenth century in the Algiers suburb of Bouzaréah . It participated in the Astrographic Catalogue project, taking the zone between -2 and +4 degrees to expose 1,260 plates between the years 1891 and 1911. ...
Telephone213 21 90 44 54/55/56
Fax213 21 90 44 58
12 Osu Avenue Extension, Cantonments - Accra, ACCRA, GHANA
Type: Planetarium Address: 12 Osu Avenue Extension, Cantonments - Accra Country: GHANA Opened since 2009 Dome of 9.14m including 50 seats Oriented No Tilt No Projection system : 2nd System Konica-Minolta Fulldome Mediaglobe - SCISS Uniview
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Description It is well known that Astronomy in Egypt started a long time ago, and Egypt is considered as one of the oldest countries whose people studied astronomy. The Egyptian monuments at Nabta Playa (Neolithic, which antedates Stonehenge ...
Yale road Entrance 10, Milner Park (PO Box 31149) - Braamfontein 2017, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Opened since 1960 Dome of 20m including 400 seats Oriented No Tilt No Projection system Zeiss : Mark III
Telephone+27 11-717-1392
Fax+27 11-339-2926
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Oukaimeden, Marrakech, Morocco
www.ucam.ac.ma/marrakechastro/AllSky/AllSky.html
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