In late March 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope helped break the record for the most distant star ever imaged in modern history. The star, named Earendel is so distant that its light has been travelling toward us for 12.9 billion years hence the star has existed for almost as long…

The MeerKAT telescope has taken a snapshot of a “dark” cloud of hydrogen gas that is as massive as a galaxy but not forming any stars! — Around about the time that the highly anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took place last year in December, some more groundbreaking science results from the South African MeerKAT Radio Telescope were published. An international team of Astronomers observed a rather oddly behaving hydrogen cloud within images…

The MeerKAT telescope brings us yet another fascinating new finding For South African Astronomy, the year began with a noticeable amount of fanfare related to the discovery of two giant radio galaxies observed with the MeerKAT telescope. Now only six months later, the first round of data releases from the telescope (commonly referred to by Astronomers as early science) have…

The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has detected two enormous radio galaxies that are almost 100 times larger than the Milky Way — What may well be the most exciting astronomical discovery of the year has been making significant press in the first month of 2021. A team of astronomers led by Jacinta Delhaize, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town’s Astronomy Department have used the world’s most sensitive radio telescope…

A new, sophisticated framework for visualising scientific data How well professional Astronomers are able to visualise the data spewed out by powerful telescopes is the cornerstone to deepening our understanding of the distant Universe and discovering new phenomena taking place within it. When you think of the vast expanse that is the Cosmos, it is actually quite remarkable…

Interviewing stages one needs to pass to join Verizon Media, France as a Data Scientist — Some History Verizon Media is the two-year-old subsidiary of the Verizon Communications conglomerate responsible for developing online, digital media and advertising services. …

Subtle differences between Python methods you already know — Throughout undergrad, I would hear the phrase “there are several ways to skin a cat” repeated by lecturers during math, applied math and physics classes. As awry and violent as I found this Mark Twain phrase, it stuck with me (oddly enough) as a light reminder that there is always…