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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…

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Dunlap Fellow Dr. Ziggy Pleunis has been awarded a prestigious Veni fellowship from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to support his work on the detection and characterization of fast radio bursts. Designed for scientists who have recently obtained their PhDs, the grant fuels three years…

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Follow Quebec-born, Innu astrophysicist Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton as she studies the cosmos from atop Hawai’i’s Maunakea volcano. North Star, a five-part documentary series that premiered on August 21, 2023, chronicles Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton’s fascinating journey as a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Rousseau-Nepton is…

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An international collaboration of over 170 scientists published the first evidence for the presence of low-frequency gravitational waves humming throughout our universe—including one recent member of the Dunlap Institute.  Dr. Cherry Ng came to the Dunlap Institute in 2017 as a SOSCIP TalentEdge Fellow and Research…

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June 14, 2023 by Josslyn Johnstone – A&S News In a study published today in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers at the University of Toronto reveal a theoretical breakthrough that may explain both the nature of invisible dark matter and the large-scale…

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  By Meaghan MacSween, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto   Astronomers in the Canadian-led CHIME/FRB Collaboration have doubled the number of known repeating sources of mysterious flashes of radio waves, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs). Among them are astronomers from…

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  By Leighton Kitson, Durham University, with notes from Meaghan MacSween, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto   Astronomers have successfully launched a balloon-borne telescope that has begun capturing images of the Universe on its first flight above the Earth’s atmosphere.  The Super…

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  On April 8, 2024, the moon will pass in front of the Sun and cast its ethereal shadow onto millions of Canadians. We have one year to prepare for this once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse! Now is the time to consider where you will be…

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  By Meaghan MacSween, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto     University of Toronto PhD student Amanda Cook has found a way to use bright signals coming from across the Universe to weigh the atmosphere of the Milky Way galaxy.  The radio…

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  By David Goldberg, A&S News The Trottier Family Foundation is partnering with Arts & Science to ensure thousands of Canadian children can view the upcoming total solar eclipse safely. An impactful gift of $240,000 from the foundation will help fund Eyes to the Sky: Elevating…

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