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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer On Monday, April 8, the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto will be hosting a livestream with partners across Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces to follow the best views of the total solar eclipse. Tune in for comprehensive coverage of the eclipse along

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer “When I was really young, I saw a shooting star. And that got me looking up at the night sky a lot more,” remembers Margaret Ikape, a PhD candidate at the Dunlap Institute and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics. As a child, Ikape had a

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer “I’m most excited to see totality because I’ve heard so many things about it and am now so hyped up about it,” says alum Ilana MacDonald, public outreach, communications and events strategist with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics. “It’d be a real shame if I missed it.”

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer March 8th is International Women’s Day, an opportunity to honour and celebrate the achievements of women around the word. This year, it is also a month away from a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse that will sweep across Ontario, Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces. Today we’re celebrating two women who

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer As educators, parents and astronomers, we want to make sure that no kids are left inside during the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience one of the most incredible natural phenomena alongside millions of Canadians. Some school boards have decided

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer We’re hosting dozens of free workshops across Toronto in partnership with the Toronto Public Library to help attendees safely enjoy the total solar eclipse on April 8 in several different ways!  Astronomers from the University of Toronto will help participants make their own pinhole solar viewers, look at the

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Prestigious prize celebrates outstanding achievements of early career astronomers  Even the closest stars in the night sky are trillions of kilometres away. But one University of Toronto professor’s shine in observational astronomical research is being recognized much closer to home.  Today, Prof. Maria Drout was awarded the 2024 Newton Lacy

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer From Fellow to Faculty to Director We are delighted to announce that one of the first Dunlap Fellows, Professor Suresh Sivanandam, has been appointed Director of the Dunlap Institute. Sivanandam aims to understand how galaxies evolve over billions of years as a function of their environment by developing cutting-edge instruments

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer An artist’s impression of a massive star stripping the hydrogen envelope of its companion in a binary system, leaving behind a hot, helium-rich exposed core. Credit: Navid Marvi, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. New findings confirm existence of hot helium stars long thought to be at the heart