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NASRDA-Center for Basic Space Science Nsukka, will Play host to not less than 1000 Participants in the 2018 World Space Week Activity.

The 2018 World Space Week (WSW) activity being organised by The NASRDA-Center for Basic Space Science will play host to over 1000 students gathering at the Centre for Basic Space Science (CBSS) Nsukka Enugu State. This will take place on the 4th of October 2018 to commemorate the WSW with activities like Lectures and documentaries on Space exploration and exploitation, planetarium shows, hands-on-exercise on Galileoscope and water rocket assembling and night sky observations.

Chukwuka Cosmas Ezenma-CBSS Research Grant for African Students in Space Science and Astronomy

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National Space Research and Development Agency-Center for Basic Space Science (NASRDA-CBSS) in collaboration with Chukwuka Cosmas Ezenma has opened a research grant for African Students in Space Science and Astronomy. The online application for this opportunity is open for qualified interested applicants and can be accessed via www.nasrdacbss.com. All applications will close on the 30th of November 2018. For detailed information for this opportunity, please click here

 

South Africa wins the right to host the 2024 IAU General Assembly.

On the statement from South African Department of Science and Technology on Cape Town winning the bid to host the IAU General Assembly in 2024 and the IAU award to Dr Carolina Ödman Govender, member of OAD review panel for her outstanding work in astronomy outreach and education, You can please read more here.

Ghana launched its first radio astronomy observatory on the 24th of August, 2017 in an effort to widen knowledge of African skies, catalyze skills development, and attract scientists. A 32-meter wide (104-foot) radio telescope, converted from an old telecommunications dish, forms the heart of the observatory, which is in Kuntunse, about an hour from the capital Accra. Click here or here for more information.

Africa Initiative for Planetary and Space Sciences. Elevating planetary and space sciences across Africa could help nations reach their development goals. Efforts will require collaboration, creativity, efficient planning, and political will. Read more

 

Ghana telescope heralds first pan-African array. Nature reported an exciting news on the 9th of May, 2017 about the Ghana telescope; By converting a defunct communications dish, astronomers are breaking ground on Earth and beyond. An old communications dish in Ghana is taking on a new role as a radio telescope. In a milestone for African astronomy, engineers have converted an old telecommunications dish in Ghana into the continent’s first functioning radio telescope outside South Africa. The telescope, in Kuntunse near Accra, is the first of an array of such instruments expected to be built across Africa over the next five years, and forms part of long-term plans to develop the skills of astronomers on the continent. It made its first observations this year and will be formally opened later in 2017. For more information, click Here

 

THE NATION, ”Catching them young” following the 2015 West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers (WAISSYA).