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2025 SURP Student Spotlights

2025 SURP Student Spotlights

The annual Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) in astronomy & astrophysics at the University of Toronto is a unique opportunity for undergraduate students in astronomy, physics or engineering to prepare for a career in scientific research. Throughout the program students have the opportunity to: Experience what a career…

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Join us for the “first look” at images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory, taken with the largest camera ever built

Join us for the “first look” at images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory, taken with the largest camera ever built

The Camera and Observatory The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize how we understand our night sky and beyond. After the world’s largest camera was completed in April 2024, carefully transported to Cerro Pachón in Chile, and positioned on the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope…

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U of T Astronomers Pioneer Innovative Machine Learning Model to Determine the Ages of Stars

U of T Astronomers Pioneer Innovative Machine Learning Model to Determine the Ages of Stars

    By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Determining the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy. Despite this, it remains an extremely challenging problem to solve, as stellar ages cannot be ascertained by simply observing stars. University…

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Astronomers snap clearest ’baby picture’ yet of the universe

Astronomers snap clearest ’baby picture’ yet of the universe

    By A&S News New research from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s infancy from the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans. Measuring light that has travelled for almost 14 billion years to reach a telescope high in…

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Largest 3D map of the universe points to evolving dark energy

Largest 3D map of the universe points to evolving dark energy

    By A&S News Using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to observe 15 million galaxies and quasars, a team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark energy’s influence on the evolution of the cosmos over the past…

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Galactic astrophysicist Jo Bovy awarded Steacie Prize for research into the lives of galaxies

Galactic astrophysicist Jo Bovy awarded Steacie Prize for research into the lives of galaxies

  by Chris Sasaki – A&S News Professor Jo Bovy, a galactic astrophysicist in the Faculty of Arts & Science’s David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, has received the distinguished Steacie Prize for 2024 for his research into galactic dynamics, galaxy formation and…

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Astronomers find first actively forming galaxy as lightweight as young Milky Way

Astronomers find first actively forming galaxy as lightweight as young Milky Way

  by A&S News NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy seen 600 million years after the Big Bang, that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy might have been like at the same stage of development. Nicknamed the Firefly…

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Astronomers Discover First Population of White Dwarf-Main Sequence Star Binaries in Open Clusters

Astronomers Discover First Population of White Dwarf-Main Sequence Star Binaries in Open Clusters

  By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics A team of astronomers, led by David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy & Astrophysics (DADDAA) graduate student Steffani Grondin, has discovered the first population of white dwarf-main sequence stellar binary candidates in open star clusters….

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U of T Student Receives 2024 Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research

U of T Student Receives 2024 Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research

  By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics Chris Lansdale, who recently completed his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto, was the recipient of the third annual Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research. Over the…

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Professor Maria Drout Named to the 2024 TIME100 Next List

Professor Maria Drout Named to the 2024 TIME100 Next List

  By Ilana MacDonald, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto The 2024 TIME 100 Next lineup was announced this week and among the individuals who are shaping the future of their fields was Associate Professor Maria Drout of the David A. Dunlap…

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