Feb 11, 2025
The ensemble of the dishes forming South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope is seen in Carnarvon on July 16, 2016. - Even operating at a quarter of its eventual capacity, South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope showed off its phenomenal power on July 16, revealing 1,300 galaxies in a tiny corner of the universe where only 70 were known before. The image released Saturday was the first from MeerKAT, where 16 dishes were formally commissioned the same day. (Photo by MUJAHID SAFODIEN / AFP)
Taken from: https://mg.co.za/news/2021-12-23-uct-astronomers-discover-first-dark-cloud-without-host-galaxy/