The Africa Millimetre Project Namibia’s entrance into space
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he sky above Namibia is so clear that you can see deep into our galaxy with the naked eye. With the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT), to be mounted in the Gamsberg area, the country will enrich its astronomic research and value.
The idea was born in The Netherlands by professor Heino Falcke of Radboud University in Nijmegen. He works on the virtual telescope (referred to as the Event Horizon Telescope or EHT) with the size of the earth that imaged black holes for the very first time. Already in 2016 he and his Dutch colleagues realised that a telescope in the Southern Africa region is much needed for improving these images.
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