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Exploring outer space from African soil

Astrophysicists from the University of Namibia (UNAM) and South Africa’s North-West University (NWU) have joined a consortium of 500 scientists in cutting-edge research into gamma rays travelling across the universe faster than the speed of sound.

The group is preparing to design and install many tens of next-generation, ground-based detectors of the particles shed by very high energy gamma rays as they crash into Earth’s atmosphere.

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