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Shared Sky opens for display at the European Commission

The Square Kilometre Array's Indigenous Astronomy Art Exhibition, Shared Sky, opened in Brussels on Monday 16th of April for its first major exhibition of 2018. The exhibition is on display at the European Commission Headquarters under the auspices of Commissioner Carlos Moedas.

In its first scientific publication, South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope observes a rare burst of activity from an exotic star

An article published in The Astrophysical Journal presents the study of a magnetar. Radio observations that could only be made with MeerKAT, an SKA precursor telescope being built in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, triggered observations with NASA X-ray telescopes orbiting the Earth. This first publication in the scientific literature of astronomical discoveries requiring the use of MeerKAT heralds its arrival into the stable of world-class research instruments.

Paving the way towards the SKA: astronomers detect signal from the first stars

In a paper published in the journal Nature, a team of US astronomers announced the detection of a signal from the first stars to have emerged in the Universe, about 180 million years after the Big Bang, boding well for the great discoveries that will be enabled by the SKA.