The African Astronomical Society (AfAS)
is a Pan-African Professional Society of Astronomers.
Latest News
- One Year Gone… another one Ahead
- Call for Nominations to AfAS Executive Committee for the period 1st April 2022 – 31st March 2025
- Namibia to host first radio telescope in Africa that can detect millimetre wavelength radiation
- UN General Assembly Proclaims International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development in 2022
- Science Forum South Africa (SFSA-2021) 1 – 3 December 2021: AfAS-IAU-OAD session on “Advancing Africa’s Astronomy Agenda” (2 December 2021, 15:30 – 17:30 CAT/CEST)
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
