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  As a board member of the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy (ACURA), I have been watching closely the recent events at the construction site of the Thirty-Metre Telescope (TMT) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and consulting with my colleagues at the University of Toronto. The…

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Toronto (June 19, 2019) – Earlier today, Dr. Bryan Gaensler, Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, was granted the 2019 Peter G. Martin Award for Mid-Career Achievement by the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA). The event took place at CASCA’s…

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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.

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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.

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U of T astronomer, Prof Maria Drout, has added a 2018 Postdoctoral Lectureship Award from Arizona State University to a recent list of honours.

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Astronomers have detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen.

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Funding from the PromoScience Program of NSERC and Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation to Discover the Universe.

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University of Toronto astronomer, Maria Drout, has received a prestigious 2018 Azrieli Global Scholar Award from CIFAR.

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NASA Hubble Fellow and Carnegie-Dunlap Fellow Maria Drout has won the Postdoctoral Innovation and Excellence Award from Carnegie Institution for Science..

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For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of the most studied objects in astronomy: the remains of Supernova 1987A.

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