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 […]
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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
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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
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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:Â Navid Marvi, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. New findings confirm existence of hot helium stars long thought to be at the heart
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer “In the Innu culture and many cultures in Canada, we come from the stars and we also return to the stars” Astrophysicist Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says her research on how stars form and influence each other over generations is an extension of the knowledge passed down to her by her Innu ancestors. “In
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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Sophia Da Costa, a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo, was recently recognized by the Dunlap Institute with the second annual Professor Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research. Supervised by Prof. Keith Vanderlinde, Da Costa designed, built and deployed an ultrawide band receiver
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 Earlier this year, astronomers successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that captured extraordinary images of the Universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere. The Super Pressure Balloon-Borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was flown to the edge of space by a helium-filled NASA scientific balloon the size of a football stadium, where it also helped
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Professor Jo Bovy, an associated faculty member at the Dunlap Institute, was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists this year.  The College recognizes mid-career leaders who provide the RSC with multigenerational capacity to help address major challenges facing Canada and the rest of the world,
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This summer, 36 emerging scholars in astronomy and astrophysics came together at the University of Toronto for the Dunlap Institute Summer School. We hosted undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students from across Canada, the United States, Chile, Mexico, Israel, South Korea, Denmark, Japan, the UK, and Spain. Students participated in lectures and laboratory sessions on radio,
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