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Radio Signal Detected from Beyond Solar System

On the evening of July 28th, the Indlebe Radio Telescope, situated on the Steve Biko campus of the Durban University of Technology, successfully detected its first radio source from beyond the solar system. A strong signal was detected from Sagittarius A, the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 30 thousand light years away.

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Switched to new hosting

Tonight I made the switch to Media Temple hosting. I have been working to move my blog from my old host server to the new one. I’ve also taken this opportunity to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. This latest version is great and seems to offer some very nice enhancements. In fact, I am scheduling this post to be published in the morning. We’ll see how this works.