19 Jul 2016

The MeerKAT First Light image of the sky reveals previously unseen galaxies, showing the potential of MeerKAT and SKA. On Saturday, July 16, MeerKAT achieved its first significant scientific milestone by using 16 of its eventual 64 dishes integrated into a working telescope array. In a small patch of sky covering less than 0.01 percent of the entire celestial sphere, the MeerKAT First Light image shows more than 1300 galaxies in the distant Universe, compared to 70 known in this location prior to MeerKAT.