By James Shelton, with notes from Meaghan MacSween The Dragonfly telescope is undergoing a metamorphosis. For the past decade, the Dragonfly Telephoto Array — designed by The University of Toronto\’s Roberto Abraham and Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum — has conducted groundbreaking science by detecting faint starlight within dimly lit parts of the night sky. […]
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Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our Galactic halo. Understanding these star streams is very important for astronomers. As well as revealing the dark matter that holds the stars in their
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The CHIME/FRB Team, which includes many researchers within the U of T Astronomy community – will be awarded the prestigious 2022 Berkeley prize by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The team is being honoured with the award for their noteworthy progress on fast radio burst (FRB) detections. They’ve discovered more than 500 in the
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A Dunlap Institute astronomer has discovered that our solar system may be surrounded by what she describes as a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves. Dr. Jennifer West, Research Associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, is making a scientific case that two bright structures that are seen on
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  – U of T Assistant Professor Renée Hložek is this year’s winner of the prestigious McLean Award. The award recognizes an emerging research leader at the University of Toronto. Hložek is an Assistant Professor at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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By Blaine Friedlander, with notes from Meaghan MacSween Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter – a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night-side and then falls from the sky like rain – the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized. An international team, led by researchers at
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The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International has granted U of T Grad Student Margaret Ikape a World Fellowship Award for the 2021-2222 academic year. Ikape – a graduate student at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics – received the award for her contributions
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\”Live fast, die young\” could be the motto of six early, massive, \”dead\” galaxies that ran out of the cold hydrogen gas needed to make stars early in the life of the Universe. These galaxies lived fast and furious lives, creating their stars in a remarkably short time. But then they literally ran
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Indigenous perspectives are a strong component of the study of astronomy, and now one U of T prof is helping to bring this important connection to the classroom. Hilding Neilson, CLTA Assistant Professor at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, has created a course for students who are interested in Indigenous
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A Dunlap Postdoc has created a new way to visualize and interpret the stars in the Milky Way, centred around the Sun. With the help of his colleagues, Banting & Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Josh Speagle used publicly available datasets and statistical methods to map out the distances to, and properties of, 170 million
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