So it's fitting that South Africa also has its own SKA precursor observatory, in the form of MeerKAT, originally the Karou Radio Telescope, based in the country's Meerkat National Park.
But it also presents itself inters testing challenges, such as when their resident meerkat gets entirely too suspicious of the domestic breed of dog they bring home—one that may be small now ...
The source, designated J1802–3353 and dubbed Kýklos (meaning "circle" in Greek), was detected with the MeerKAT radio telescope. "We present the serendipitous discovery of a new radio-continuum ...