The African Astronomical Society (AfAS)
is a Pan-African Professional Society of Astronomers.
Latest News
- Announcement: Sub-Saharan Africa Astronomy Summer School: 06 – 17 Sep 2021, Entebbe, Uganda
- Professor in Radio Astronomy
- VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: PROFESSOR ASTRONOMY at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST)
- Cosmic beasts and where to find them
- New year’s message – 2021
Upcoming Events
There are no upcoming events at this time.
Astronomy
- Development of Astronomical Observing Facilities conference puts forward the case for UK supported Astronomical Observatory in Kenya
- MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way
- Inauguration of the MeerLICHT telescope
- Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array
- SALT helps international team to discover major supercluster of galaxies hidden by Milky Way
Astronomy
- South African Student Constructed Indlebe Radio Telescope
- The African Data Intensive Research Cloud
- Broadening Participation in the Sciences within and from Africa: Purpose, Challenges, and Prospects
- National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme
- ‘The first philosophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher education policy
- ‘The first philosophers were astronomers’: Curiosity and innovation in higher education policy
