The African Astronomical Society (AfAS)
is a Pan-African Professional Society of Astronomers.
Latest News
- ASPIRE (ASTROPHYSICS SUMMER PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE)
- South Africa’s first locally produced digital planetarium film, Rising Star, goes international!
- The 2nd Annual Conference and the General Assembly of the African Astronomical Society (AfAS-2022)
- African Astronomical Society (AfAS): Membership Committee Recruitment
- First ever African Women in Astronomy Award winners announced
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
