The CRAQ looks up to the sky at the Eureka Festival!
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) was present at the 2018 Eureka Festival! Enthusiastic CRAQ students took part in this 12th edition of the festival which took place in the Montreal Old Port from June 8 to 10. During these three days, our young scientific communicators shared some mysteries of the cosmos […]
Magnetic fields at the heart of the Pillars of Creation
An international team, known as the “BISTRO Consortium” (B-Fields in Star-Forming Region Observations) including Pierre Bastien, professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), has for the first time mapped the magnetic field within the dense gas of the “Pillars of Creation”. The observations were […]