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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 […]

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,

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

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

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Renée Hložek, Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, is one of six researchers who was awarded the 2025 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).

Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics University of Toronto Scarborough student Aishani Chaudhuri, who just started her third year specializing in Physics and Astrophysics, is this year’s recipient of the Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research. This past summer, Chaudhuri participated in

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