News
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
On Friday 13 December 2019, the Dean of Science at UCT, Prof Maano Ramutsindela, formally opened the second optical teaching telescope. This is a new 14-inch Celestron telescope dedicated towards optical spectroscopy. The Tony Fairall Teaching Observatory of the Department of Astronomy at UCT now consists of two 14-in Celestron optical teaching telescopes, and one 3-m radio teaching telescope. The latter is housed at the SAAO.
Publication Date:
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 - 12:00
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