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IDIA Quarter 1 2026 Newsletter now available
The IDIA Quarter 1 2026 newsletter, covering January to March 2026,…
Press Release! MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway across the universe
UP/IDIA researchers open a new frontier enabled by MeerKAT and IDIA’s…
Congratulations to IDIA project manager Kechil Kirkham on her 1000th episode!
Kechil Kirkham, Project Manager of IDIA, has several strings to her…
NEW DATA RELEASE! Unveiling the Deep Radio Sky with the superMIGHTEE Project
A major milestone has been reached with the first data release from…
PRESS RELEASE! Early star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon were highly magnetized and too windy (engulfed by halos of high-energy cosmic rays)
A team of astronomers, led by the Institute for Research in…
SOFTWARE RELEASE! CARTA release v5.0
A new release of CARTA is out: this is the stable v5.0 release,…
SOFTWARE RELEASE! CARTA v5-beta
A new release of CARTA is out: v5-beta. This contains several new…
PRESS RELEASE! IDIA helps UP-led astronomy research team to explore the formation of giant radio galaxies
Using the supercomputing power provided by IDIA facilities and…
PRESS RELEASE! The Age of Giants: IDIA helps MeerKAT to identify a troublesome cosmic beast
With the help of IDIA facilities, South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope…
CALLING ALL ilifu USERS! ilifu Astronomy User Survey 2024
We are pleased to invite you to complete our ilifu Astronomy User…
PRESS RELEASE: Public release of the iDaVIE Virtual Reality software by the IDIA Vislab
Cape Town, South Africa – October 1, 2024 The Inter-University…
NSTF-South32 Awards – winners!!!
IDIA Wins at the 2023/2024 NSTF-South32 Awards! We are happy to…
NEW IDIA-EMPOWERED PHD GRADUATE! Dr Charissa Button becomes UP’s first PhD graduate in Astrophysics
Dr Charissa Button has made history by becoming the University of…
MEDIA RELEASE: Meet the 49ers – 49 new galaxies found by MeerKAT and IDIA in a few hours
The 49ers – the 49 new gas-rich galaxies detected by the…
The World’s Largest International Astronomy Meeting will be held in Africa and Open to the Public for the first time.
Registrations Now Open for the Historic International Astronomical…
New Release of CARTA V4.0
The CARTA development team is happy to announce that CARTA…
NSTF-SOUTH32 AWARDS 2022/2023 FINALIST
IDIA has been selected as a finalist of the 2022/2023 NSTF-South32…
NEW RELEASE OF CARTA V4-BETA
A new beta version of the Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for…
CARTA 3.0 Released
The CARTA development team is excited to announce that CARTA v3.0 is…
African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries
By Roger Deane and Iniyan Natarajan Astronomers have…
Independently organised hackathon running this week in Namibia
Dr. Lameck Amugongo is a DARA Big Data alum who has been part of ur…
Are galaxies spinning in alignment with the cosmic web?
A new paper by the MIGHTEE-HI team reveals the connection between the…
Megamaser “Nkalakatha” discovered by astronomers using MeerKAT
Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, a team of researchers from the…