Looking Up - 05 May 2018

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We think of astronomy as looking at the stars, but there's other ways that southern african observatories are contributing to a fuller picture of what the universe is like. Professor Christo Venter, an astrophysicist from North West University, tells us about gamma rays and about the gamma ray detector in Namibia.
5 May 2018 English South Africa Places & Travel

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