the Unit 3 Telescope is named Melipal, for the Southern Cross; and the Unit 4 Telescope is called Yepun, for Venus. (Originally, "Yepun" had been translated as "Sirius," but an investigation by ...

While it looks like one star to an unassisted observer on Earth, more sensitive telescopes reveal that it is made up of several components. What else can you see in the Southern Cross? Astronomers ...

The Southern Cross, that icon of adventure and romance ... and now many of the largest telescopes on Earth have taken root along a sort of observatory alley that runs north-south for some 800 ...

The naked-eye wonder of the Southern Cross is only overshadowed by its ... a dark sky (especially through binoculars or a wide-field telescope) and you will see it consists of several charred ...

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 ...