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S. Africa's new MeerKat radio telescope's first image: 1300 galaxies

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http://news.sky.com/story/1300-galaxies-in-first-super-telescope-image-10503676?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter

South Africa's new MeerKAT radio telescope has found 1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the universe where only 70 were known to before.

The first image was produced by MeerKAT, which is based nearly 400 miles north of Cape Town, despite only 16 of the site's 64 planned dishes being activated.

When all the receptors are working it will form part of the multi-national Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will become the world's most powerful radio telescope.

Fernando Camilo of SKA said even at current capacity MeerKAT "is already the best radio telescope in the southern hemisphere".
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Ooh, cool!

(Even if I can't pry my brain away from the dorkish image of meerkats in glasses and the occasional lab coat operating a telescope.)
 
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That really would make it even more awesome than it already is.
 
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