SALT Annual Report 2020
The SALT Annual Report 2020 (also available as a high resolution pdf) includes science highlights, an introduction to the SALT partners, operations news and feedback on outreach & education....
18 September, 2021
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eROSITA and SALT witness the awakening of massive black holes
Combined observations by eROSITA, the main instrument aboard the Spectrum-Röntgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite, and the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) have led to an important discovery. Two apparently normal galaxies observed......
28 April, 2021
SALT mini trackers
At their November 2019 meeting in India, the SALT Board commissioned a study to explore the feasibility of pursuing the development of the SALT mini-tracker concept. The study report, along......
01 November, 2020
Strategic Objectives
SALT’s Stategic Objectives The brochure outlines SALT’s strategic objectives ranging from enabling world-class science to driving human capital development....
04 September, 2020
Accreting pulsar caught in the act of ‘powering up’
Observations across a range of wavelengths (optical, ultraviolet and X-rays) made in 2019, including those from the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) have captured – for the first time –......
22 June, 2020
SALT observes super fast spirals!
Astronomers using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), have measured the rotation of some of the largest spiral galaxies, spinning at up to 570 kilometres per second! Their rapid spin......
17 October, 2019