South African Astronomical Observatory

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SAAO

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https://www.saao.ac.za

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NRF national facility and national centre for optical and infrared astronomy, operating SALT and other telescopes.

What Govermate has read

Updated 29 Jul 2026

Built from the documents Govermate has read from SAAO. Every line below comes from a source document, not from an editorial description.

What this body does

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OFFERS16 documentsasserted in claims
OFFERS16 documentslinked in the graph
Astronomy public-information webpage for the monthly “Whats Up” sky guide1 documentdescribed in documents
Media statement/press release about South African telescopes following up Vera C1 documentdescribed in documents
Monthly institutional newsletter with astronomy skywatching information and link1 documentdescribed in documents
SAAO news/press release article reporting new SALT observations that confirm the1 documentdescribed in documents
astronomy observatory monthly public skywatching newsletter webpage1 documentdescribed in documents

Recent activity

29 Jul 2026South African Astronomical Observatory - OFFERS
Download the Whats Up
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Visitors programme
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Job Shadowing SAAO
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Study & Bursaries 2027
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2027 MSc and PhD Research Opportunities at SAAO
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Postdoctoral Opportunities
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new SALT observations confirm the “beast” of the Large Magellanic Cloud is still very much alive as a red supergiant.
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WOH G64 is a system composed of a red supergiant (at left, in orange) and a smaller hot star (at right, in blue).
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New observations with SALT suggest that the hot star may be causing the atmosphere of the red supergiant to spread out. Some of it may fuel a disk of gas around the hot star, giving rise to emission lines in the SALT spectrum.
29 Jul 2026South African Astronomical Observatory - STATES
Using the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) between November 2024 and December 2025, they obtained deep optical spectra of the fading system.

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13 classified as something a person can apply for, 16 identified by reading.

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