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Dunlap researchers help reveal galaxy sparkling with universe’s oldest star clusters

September 29, 2022 by Josslyn Johnstone – A&S News Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers from the Canadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS) team — including observational astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science — have identified the most distant globular clusters ever discovered. These […]

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U of T\’s Renée Hložek Elected to College of New Scholars 

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  – The University of Toronto’s Professor Renée Hložek has been elected to the prestigious College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists recognizes emerging intellectual leadership within Canada, of scholars in their early post-doctoral career. Hložek is an Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute

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U of T Astro August Grad Student of the Month: Samantha Berek

  [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] Sam is a second-year PhD student in the David A. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. She works in the field of astrostatistics, applying statistical models and methods to better understand the relationship between galaxies and their star cluster populations. Before starting her PhD at U of T,

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Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

  The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.   By Jennifer Chu (MIT News Office), with notes from Meaghan MacSween Along with collaboration partners, astronomers at the Dunlap Institute and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics have detected a strange and persistent radio signal

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U of T Astro July Grad Student of the Month: Ariel Amaral

  [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] Ariel is a fifth-year PhD student at the University of Toronto. She works under the supervision of Professor Bryan Gaensler, and her thesis focuses on extra–galactic magnetic fields – from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to the intergalactic medium. Born and raised in Toronto (go Leafs go!), she received her Honours Bachelor of

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