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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer The next-generation radio telescope will leverage Canadian astronomical leadership to unveil the mysteries of the cosmos. Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on Canadian soil. Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD will give astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer An international collaboration of astronomers, including members from the University of Toronto, have detected the brightest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to date, and using a network of radio telescopes, have been able to pinpoint its location in a nearby galaxy. FRBs remain one of astronomy’s most mysterious phenomena, but

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers, led by David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics assistant professor and Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics associated faculty Seiji Fujimoto, unveiled their discovery of a remarkably clumpy rotating galaxy that existed just 900 million

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Sunset at Rubin Observatory on Cerro Pachón in Chile.Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek   The Camera and Observatory The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize how we understand our night sky and beyond. After the world’s largest camera was completed in April 2024, carefully transported to Cerro Pachón in Chile,

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer   By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Determining the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy. Despite this, it remains an extremely challenging problem to solve, as stellar ages cannot be ascertained by simply observing stars. University of Toronto astronomers have developed

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in northern Chile. By A&S News New research from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy from the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring light that has travelled for almost 14 billion years to reach a telescope high

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is the long, black cylinder mounted on the Mayall Telescope. Photo: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab. By A&S News Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to observe 15 million galaxies and quasars, a team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer by Chris Sasaki – A&S News Professor Jo Bovy, a galactic astrophysicist in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, has received the distinguished Steacie Prize for 2024 for his research into galactic dynamics, galaxy formation and evolution, dark matter and astrostatistics.

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