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South Africa celebrates completion of gigantic, super-sensitive telescope

MeerKAT has drawn astronomers, engineers and data scientists from around the world.
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Scientists and politicians in South Africa are together celebrating the official opening of a gigantic telescope that is already transforming astronomical research in the nation.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05730-9

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  • Correction 16 July 2018: An earlier version of this story inaccurately reported that MeerKAT was already surveying hydrogen abundance and overstated the number of ‘large survey’ projects that would be investigating the element.

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