Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Our YouTube Channel The CHIME telescope has made its first standalone detection of the glow of hydrogen from when the universe was about five billion years old, paving the way for new studies of cosmic expansion and dark energy. by Alex Walls The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) […]
Menu Job Opportunities Dunlap Fellowship Potential Fellowship Hosts From Fellow to Faculty/Scientist Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Particle Astrophysics Application Submission: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/UofT/Dunlap/PDF_GAPS2026 Application Deadline: October 15, 2026 Closing Date: October 15, 2026 Inquiries: Prof. Field Rogers <> Job Description: **Please note that this posting will remain open until filled. We will begin reviewing applications
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Menu Job Opportunities Dunlap Fellowship Potential Fellowship Hosts From Fellow to Faculty/Scientist Application Submission: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/UofT/Dunlap/DUNLAP_FELLOW2026 Closing Date for Receipt of Applications: November 9th, 2026Â Email Address for Inquiries: ______________________________________________________________________ The University of Toronto invites applications for the Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowships within the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Dunlap Institute pursues innovative astronomical
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Our YouTube Channel by Ilana MacDonald At the beginning of June, Dr. Tanveer Karim, Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of Toronto, was among 6 Canadian scientists selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Meeting. The annual scientific conference is held in Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, and this year welcomed over 650
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Our YouTube Channel The Helix Nebula shows stellar debris being broken apart and recycled into the galaxy—and offers a glimpse of the Sun’s distant future New discovery by MOTHRA, the new all-lens telescope under construction in El Sauce Observatory, Chile The carbon in our bodies and the oxygen we
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Our YouTube Channel by Coby Zucker – A&S News Wendy Freedman has made a career of measuring the universe. Her efforts to refine the Hubble constant — a value that represents the expansion rate of the universe — helped deepen our understanding of the age and scale of the cosmos.
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Our YouTube Channel As a result of a join application involving universities across Canada, $11.3M has been awarded from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to support Canada’s contribution to the ANDES instrument on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile. At 39 metres in diameter,
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer  By Chris Sasaki – A&S News A team of astronomers has bolstered the evidence for the existence of one of the most remarkable, yet elusive, phenomena in the universe: pairs of supermassive black holes (SMBH) in orbit around each other in the centres of galaxies. Their research, recently
Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer   By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute What began in 2013 as a novel telescope made from combining just three commercially available telephoto camera lenses has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis into one of the world’s most powerful telescopes. The Dragonfly Telephoto Array has evolved into MOTHRA, a next-generation telescope
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By A&S News A pioneer in the study of exoplanets and exoplanet atmospheres, Sara Seager is returning to her alma mater, the University of Toronto (U of T), to join the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) as North Star Distinguished Professor, starting September 1, 2026. “I’m excited to return home as a
