MeerKAT sheds light on more than 1 300 galaxies

The MeerKAT radio telescope's First Light image, officially released by Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor earlier this month, has been hailed as a significant scientific milestone and has also been held up as proof of it being “the best radio telescope of its kind in the southern hemisphere”. Covering less than 0.01% of the entire celestial sphere, the MeerKAT First Light image showed more than 1 300 galaxies in the distant universe, compared with 70 known in this location prior to MeerKAT.