After the Canadarm, the Canadeyes for the future Webb Telescope
Cutting-edge Canadian space technology directed by Université de Montréal’s René Doyon Two instruments whose development was led by by the University of Montreal’s Professor René Doyon, known by the acronyms NIRISS and FGS, will be integrated into the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb for short) that will replace Hubble in 2018. The twin […]
The Observatoire Mont-Mégantic and researchers from the CRAQ witness the upcoming disintegration of a planet
A research team led by researchers from the MIT and NASA, including two researchers from the CRAQ (Bishop’s University and Université Laval), demonstrated the upcoming disintegration of a planet around its host star. This cataclysmic event, which will happen in the next 100 millions of years, was evidenced by data from the Kepler space telescope […]