In its first scientific publication, South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope observes a rare burst of activity from an exotic star

Square Kilometer Array: The nearly completed MeerKAT array in the Karoo. Credit: SARAO Cape Town, Friday 6 April 2018 - An article published today in The Astrophysical Journal presents the study of a magnetar - a star that is one of the most magnetic objects known in the universe - that awoke in 2017 from a 3-year slumber. Radio observations that could only be made with MeerKAT, an SKA precursor telescope being built in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, triggered observations with NASA...