Dunlap Fellow Jason Hunt has been awarded the 2018 Polanyi Prize in Physics for his work in mapping the Milky Way Galaxy using the Gaia space telescope.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO [6 December 2018] The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics is concerned about the allegations of sexual misconduct that have been made against Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson. In March 2014, Dr Tyson was named the inaugural winner of the Dunlap Prize,…
Yvette Cendes, a graduate student with the U of Toronto and Leiden Observatory, has created a time-lapse showing twenty-five years in the life of SN1987A.
U of T astronomer, Prof Maria Drout, has added a 2018 Postdoctoral Lectureship Award from Arizona State University to a recent list of honours.
Astronomers have detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen.
Funding from the PromoScience Program of NSERC and Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation to Discover the Universe.
University of Toronto astronomer, Maria Drout, has received a prestigious 2018 Azrieli Global Scholar Award from CIFAR.
NASA Hubble Fellow and Carnegie-Dunlap Fellow Maria Drout has won the Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award from Carnegie Institution for Science..
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of the most studied objects in astronomy: the remains of Supernova 1987A.
