Join us for a night of fun astronomy-themed virtual trivia! Come test your knowledge on the mysteries of the Cosmos and have the opportunity to ask questions of real astrophysicists from the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥...
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment fast radio burst (CHIME/FRB) team, which discovered more than 500 new fast radio bursts in the first year of the detector’s operations, will...
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In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the...
New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Space Institute and ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Department of Physics, strongly suggest that magnetars - a type of...
November 7, 2019 (MONTREAL, Quebec) - A team of researchers from the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Space Institute has secured a Phase 0 contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to advance a proposed Canadian...
The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten – much to the surprise of astrophysicists studying the aftermath of the massive collision that took...
Victoria Kaspi, a professor and Canada research chair at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥, is this year's winner of the $1 million Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal from the Natural Sciences and Engineering...