The Cape Town planetarium is open to the public! Ofentse Letebele explains their covid-safety procedures and how you can find out what's going on. It's World Space Week this week, and throughout the continent we are celebrating mobile planetaria, which are taken to rural areas to entertain and educate children on astronomy. Here in Cape Town we have a digital dome at the Iziko Museum which gives a very exciting immersive experience.

Looking Up

Looking up - 09 Oct 20

Five minutes at the end of each week explores the big and the small questions in astronomy, cosmology, and space science. Hosted by Kechil Kirkham, no subject is too big or too small, and experts are regularly brought on board to illuminate and excite. Cape Town is the place to be for astronomy, with some of the largest telescopes in the world housed or being built not too far away. Looking Up takes advantage of the shoals of scientists and engineers working on the planet’s most advanced astronomy projects, who live and work right here in the Mother City. Kechil has recently acquired an MPhil in Space Studies at the University of Cape Town, and works in South Africa’s space industry on the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.

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