Astronomers love their acronyms! It’s almost impossible to talk about the world of astronomy without mentioning an acronym or two (or three). Here’s a few we mention often on The Cosmic Savannah.
AGN: Active galactic nucleus
AMT: African Millimetre Telescope
ASKAP: Australian SKA Pathfinder
ATLAS: Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
CME: Coronal mass ejection
EHT: Event Horizon Telescope
GMRT: Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope
HESS: High Energy Spectroscopic System
ICRAR: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
IDIA: Inter-University Data Intensive Astronomy
MIGHTEE: MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration survey
MWA: Murchison Widefield Array
SIMBA: Simulations of Black Hole Accretion
SAAO: South African Astronomical Observatory
SALT: Southern African Large Telescope
SARAO: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
SETI: Search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
SKA: Square Kilometre Array
UCT: University of Cape Town
UWC: University of the Western Cape
VLA: Very Large Array
VLBI: Very long baseline interferometry