Astro Acronyms
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.
AfAS: African Astronomical Society
AfNWA: African Network for Women in Astronomy
AGN: Active galactic nucleus
ALMA: Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array
AMT: African Millimetre Telescope
ASKAP: Australian SKA Pathfinder
ATLAS: Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System
CHIME: Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment
CME: Coronal mass ejection
EHT: Event Horizon Telescope
FRB: Fast radio burst
GMRT: Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope
GRB: Gamma-ray burst
HESS: High Energy Spectroscopic System
HI: Neutral hydrogen gas
IAU: International Astronomical Union
ICRAR: International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
IDIA: Inter-University Data Intensive Astronomy
KAT: Karoo Array Telescope
LADUMA: Looking at the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array
LSST: Legacy Survey of Space and Time
MIGHTEE: MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration
MWA: Murchison Widefield Array
OAD: Office of Astronomy for Development
SIMBA: Simulations of Black Hole Accretion
SAAO: South African Astronomical Observatory
SALT: Southern African Large Telescope
SANSA: South African National Space Agency
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