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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 04, 2020 New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers – including researchers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrphysics and the University of Toronto  – strongly suggests that magnetars – a type of neutron star believed to have an extremely powerful magnetic field – could be the source […]

  Astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics have led a research team that has helped map the north-sky portion of the Milky Way Galaxy’s magnetic field. The team used data from the CHIME telescope to measure the way in which invisible magnetism distorts the radio signals from rapidly spinning stars known as “pulsars.”

Observations by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope suggest that the universe is 13.8 billion years old.   July 15, 2020 – From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation’s Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) – including researchers with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy

  July 15, 2020 – The team behind the Canadian-based radio telescope CHIME (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment) has been awarded the fifth annual Governor General’s Innovation Award. Announced Tuesday by the Rideau Hall Foundation, these awards recognize and celebrate exceptional Canadian individuals, teams, and organizations who have “developed new or better ways of creating value and

Blasts of radiation detected every 16 days, which could help explain mysterious bursts of energy from space. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 17, 2020) – A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Toronto and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (March 2, 2020) – Dr. Allison Man, a Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, has been chosen as one of three Canada-based participants for the fifth cohort of the Homeward Bound program. Homeward Bound is a global 12-month leadership initiative for women with a background in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine). The aim

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  (February 12, 2019) – Dr. Renée Hložek has been awarded the 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics for her contribution to our understanding of the nature, structure, and evolution of the Universe and its initial conditions. Hložek, an Assistant Professor at the Dunlap Institute and the David A. Dunlap Department

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  (February 4, 2019) – Dr. Maria Drout has been awarded the 2019 Polanyi Prize in Physics for her contribution to our understanding of the evolution, influence, and ultimate fate of massive stars. Drout, an Associate at the Dunlap Institute and Assistant Professor at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (January 21) – The Dunlap Institute has extended the application deadline for the 2020 Dunlap Institute Summer School. The new deadline is Friday, January 31. Full information can be found here. The Dunlap Institute Summer School is an introduction to astronomical instrumentation that is internationally renowned. The dates for the 2020 summer school

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  (January 8, 2020) – Dr. Jo Bovy has been awarded the 2019 Helen B. Warner Prize for his contribution to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way. Bovy, an Associate at the Dunlap Institute and Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Galactic Astrophysics at the David