Mobile Planetarium expands team as school demand soars

Training boosts outreach for Africa Millimetre Telescope Project The Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) UNAM Mobile Planetarium, in partnership with Nedbank and the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy, is an educational, student-led outreach... Read more »

Scientists discover the highest energy gamma rays ever from a pulsar with HESS observatory

The observatory records 20 TeV photons from the Vela pulsar Scientists using the High Energy Stereoscopy System (H.E.S.S.) observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead... Read more »

Astronomers receive ERC Synergy Grant to make colour movies of black holes and build new telescope in Africa

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant, named “BlackHolistic”, of 14 million Euro to a team of Dutch, British, Finnish, and Namibian astronomers to make colour movies of black... Read more »

Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit

H.E.S.S. researchers observe time-dependent particle acceleration outside our solar system for the first time Novae are powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system, in which... Read more »