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Follow Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield in this short video as he explains Soyuz training in Star City, Russia, during a simulator run with his crewmates, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian Space Agency cosmonaut Roman Romanenko.
Read More »NASA In Their Own Words: Chris Hadfield
A question and answer session with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield who will be the first Canadian to command the International Space Station on Expedition 35 set to launch late this year.
Read More »Comet Lovejoy Survives Brush with the Sun
After grazing the Sun’s corona at a distance of 120,000 km from the Sun’s surface Comet Lovejoy emerged on the other side of the Sun still intact. Images supplied by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Read More »University of Western Ontario Astronomers Capture Bright Fireball on Video
Just after 6:00 pm last Monday, a bright fireball shot across the sky, visible from Hamilton to Peterborough. A system of video cameras set up by astronomers captured video of the event which may make it possible to recover meteorite fragments.
Read More »New Canadian Astronauts Complete Basic Training
Canada’s two newest astronauts, Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques, have now completed their two year basic training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Read More »Canadian LIDAR to be a Part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA today announced that the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission was the winner of NASA’s third mission in its New Frontiers Program. It was one of three finalists. Regardless of which mission was going to be selected Canada was participating in all three. Canada’s contribution will be a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system that the Canadian Space Agency will contract out to …
Read More »Canadian Universities Join Consortium to Answer Fundamental Questions of Cosmology
Seven Canadian universities have joined a U.S. led consortium to build the 25 meter Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) in northern Chile at the site of the highest permanent ground-based telescopes in the world in the hopes of answering some of the fundamental questions of cosmology.
Read More »Astronomy: What's Up February? Moon and Planet Pairs
This month see Jupiter at sunset, Saturn at midnight, pretty moon and planet couples in-between. Plus find a comet, and an asteroid in your telescope. Also features the Valentines day flyby of comet Temple 1 by the Stardust NExT spacecraft. Brought to you by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Read More »Professional Astronomers "Unraveling the Universe"
According to Philomena Bonis, the real reason why she hosted the Astronomy & Space Exploration Society (ASX) 8th Annual Expanding Canada’s Frontier Symposium, on Friday, January 28th, at the University of Toronto Convocation Hall was to show that “the passions, the dreams and the interests of ordinary people can turn a series of seemingly small steps into something extraordinary.”
Read More »Unraveling the Universe – 8th Annual Expanding Canada's Frontier Symposium
Tonight the Astronomy & Space Exploration Society at the University of Toronto is hosting the 8th annual “Expanding Canada’s Frontiers” symposium. It is billed as the largest astronomy symposium in the country. The event starts 7 p.m. at the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall and doors open at 6 p.m. This years theme is “Unraveling the Universe” and features several prominent Canadian researchers.
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