Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer by A&S News NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy seen 600 million years after the Big Bang, that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have been like at the same stage of development. Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this young galaxy is […]
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics A team of astronomers, led by David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy & Astrophysics (DADDAA) graduate student Steffani Grondin, has discovered the first population of white dwarf-main sequence stellar binary candidates in open star clusters. The team also included DADDAA
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Chris Lansdale, who recently completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, was the recipient of the third annual Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research. Over the summer of 2024, Lansdale participated
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto The 2024 TIME 100 Next lineup was announced this week and among the individuals who are shaping the future of their fields was Associate Professor Maria Drout of the David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Sean McNeely, Arts & Science News For advancing our understanding of the universe’s structure, origin and evolution, cosmologist Renée Hložek has received the Rutherford Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). “It was something that I wanted, but not something that I ever really expected to
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto A new citizen science project has launched thanks to a team that includes researchers from the Dunlap Institute. “Galaxy Zoo: Euclid” will allow members of the public to help classify galaxies in images from the European
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto The European Space Agency’s (ESA) brand-new Ariane 6 rocket had a successful inaugural launch on Tuesday, July 9. Departing from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the mission carried an array of satellites, experiments, and deployers, including LUVCam
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Study detailing the properties of polarized light from 128 non-repeating FRBs reveals mysterious cosmic explosions originate in far-away galaxies like our own Milky Way What scientists previously thought about where Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) come from is just the tip of the iceberg, according to new research led by
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer The buds of a partnership between the Dunlap Institute, the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School in Toronto started to bloom in time for this year’s total solar eclipse. Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School provides Indigenous students from kindergarten to grade
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Not sure what to do with your eclipse glasses? You can keep them in a safe place to use for a future eclipse, or donate them to Astronomers Without Borders to be recycled and reused! Donated eclipse glasses will be inspected and redistributed to people in the path of
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