The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) has already awarded the contracts for the construction of the infrastructure required for the expansion of the country’s world-leading MeerKAT radio telescope array. Located in the Karoo region, roughly west of the Northern Cape town of Carnarvon, the array has won enthusiastic plaudits from the global astronomy and astrophysics communities because of the unprecedentedly high-resolution data it is providing, which has already led to a number ...
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