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
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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
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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
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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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