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Dr. Tanveer Karim stands in front of a screen displaying his research. He is wearing a blue shirt and has his hand up as he explains his research. The screen behind him shows a colourful diagram of the distribution of galaxies in the universe.

Dunlap Institute Postdoctoral Fellow invited to the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

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Menu Latest News Interview An Astronomer Our YouTube Channel by Ilana MacDonald At the beginning of June, Dr. Tanveer Karim, Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow from the University of Toronto, was among 6 Canadian scientists selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Meeting. The annual scientific conference is held in Lindau, Bavaria, Germany, and this year welcomed over 650 […]

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A nebula can be seen against the black backdrop of space. It is a oval-shaped cloud of gas, with shockwaves emanating from the centre, which is more dense. There is blue gas at the center, and the outer edges are reddish orange gas.

New image reveals how dying stars return the ingredients of life to space

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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

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‘U of T still feels like home’: Renowned astronomer Wendy Freedman on getting her start in Astronomy at U of T

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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.

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Canada now at the heart of the world’s largest telescope with the ANDES instrument

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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,

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Astronomers pave the way in the search for supermassive black hole binaries in the hearts of galaxies

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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

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Revealing a Hidden Universe: First-of-its-kind telescope MOTHRA unveiled

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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

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Renowned planetary scientist Sara Seager joins U of T and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics as North Star Distinguished Professor

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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

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Professor Renée Hložek Awarded 2025 Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship

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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).

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UTSC Astronomy Student is the 2025 Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research Recipient

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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

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CHORD will be a huge leap forward for Canadian radio astronomy

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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

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