Doing astronomy is like investing. It is a science that promotes innovation, an essential ingredient for the sustainable development of a country. - Zara Randriamanakoto

The SKA project has helped put Africa on the map of the astronomy world and this is just the beginning.

I studied astronomy because it was an opportunity that I could not miss and a challenge that I wanted to take up. Madagascar needed young experts in this field given its involvement in the South African SKA project as an African partner country during South Africa's bid to host SKA, the future largest observatory in the world. Today, astronomy has also become my great passion.

Like humans, a star cluster is born, lives, and dies. The duration of this process could be up to a few billion years or more.