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News
Sunday, 29 March 2020
The Department of Astronomy of the University of Cape Town is offering a postdoctoral position to work with Prof Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg, South African Research Chair in Extragalactic Multi-wavelength Astronomy, on HI-data obtained with the recently completed 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope of the South African Radio Astronomical Radio Observatory
Publication Date:
Thu, 12 Dec 2019 - 20:45
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. These explosive events last several seconds and during that time they emit the same amount of gamma-rays as all the stars in the universe combined. Such extreme amounts of energy can only be released during catastrophic events like the death of a very massive star, or the merging of two compact stars, and are accompanied by an afterglow of light over a broad range of wavelengths (or equivalently energies), that fades with time.
Publication Date:
Thu, 21 Nov 2019 - 07:45
We are pleased to announce that the portals for registration and abstract submission are now open for the conference
Cosmic Flows, Large-Scale Structure and Visualisation
to be held 17 -21 Feb 2020 in Stellenbosch (STIAS)
All further information can be found at the conference website www.idia.ac.za/cosflow2020/
Publication Date:
Fri, 01 Nov 2019 - 13:30
Using the Southern African Large Telescope, UCT Astronomy's Prof Tom Jarrett and colleagues recently determined the very fast rotation speeds of 'super spirals', large massive spiral galaxies. Read all about this exciting research in the SAAO press release, or the article on Universe Today. This research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Prof Jarrett is the NRF SARChI Chair in Astrophysics and Space Science.
Publication Date:
Tue, 22 Oct 2019 - 18:15