South Africa's MeerKAT telescope snaps stunning shot of Milky Way center

The MeerKAT radio telescope array is finally up and running in South Africa, after a decade of design and construction. To show off what the facility can do, astronomers have pointed all 64 antennas towards the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and snapped one of the clearest shots ever taken of the mysterious region.

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Category: Space

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• Arrays
• Australia
• Galaxy
• Radio
• South Africa
• Telescope

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