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The telescope will be known as SALT – the Southern African Large Telescope. International and local partners and scientists, as well as other dignitaries attended the ceremony at the observatory ...

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Today's inauguration of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will provide the sub-continent with a scientific facility with a capability normally associated with the developed world.

Perched on top of a grassy hill in the suburbs of Cape Town is the South African Large Telescope (SALT), an imposing structure aptly named for being one of the biggest of its kind in the world.

More than 1,000 guests gathered on a wind-swept hillside in the Karoo desert to marvel at the Southern Africa Large Telescope (SALT), which can gather more than 25 times as much light as any ...

Meanwhile, in the arid desert Karoo region of Northern Cape, the South African Large Telescope (SALT) tracks galaxies and quasars. A springbok antelope walks by the Southern African Large ...

The South Africa Large Telescope, or SALT, will also be able to record light as dim as a candle flame on the moon. The official unveiling ceremony at Sutherland in South Africa's Karoo's region ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) will enable scientists to view stars and galaxies a billion times too faint to be visible to the naked eye -- about as luminous as a candle’s flame on ...