SALT Annual Report 2024
The SALT Annual Report 2024 (also available as a high resolution pdf) includes science highlights, an introduction to the SALT partners, operations news and feedback on outreach & education....
07 April, 2025
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SALT Annual Report 2023
The SALT Annual Report 2023 (also available as a high resolution pdf) includes science highlights, an introduction to the SALT partners, operations news and feedback on outreach & education....
24 April, 2024
SALT aids in the discovery of a unique white dwarf system that may help explain supernova origins
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in collaboration with South African astronomers, have discovered a rare white dwarf binary star system, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud,......
13 July, 2023
SALT Annual Report 2022
The SALT Annual Report 2022 (also available as a high resolution pdf) includes science highlights, an introduction to the SALT partners, operations news and feedback on outreach & education....
06 April, 2023
SALT Contributes to the discovery of a four star system
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) and the University of Canterbury’s Mount John Observatory in New Zealand have recently discovered a system of four stars orbiting each other. After initially......
20 May, 2022
SALT Annual Report 2021
The SALT Annual Report 2021 (also available as a high resolution pdf) includes science highlights, an introduction to the SALT partners, operations news and feedback on outreach & education....
12 April, 2022