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 […]
Researchers from the CRAQ discover a galaxy-packed filament using data from the Herschel Space Observatory
A team led by McGill researchers (also members of the CRAQ) has discovered, using the Herschel Space Observatory, a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will smash together and give rise to one of the largest galaxy superclusters in […]
A researcher from the CRAQ helps NASA open a new window on the Universe
NASA is making final preparations to launch its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, NuSTAR. The mission, which will use X-ray vision to hunt for buried black holes, ultra-dense neutron stars, and supernova remnants, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13. Prof. Victoria Kaspi, from McGill and the CRAQ, leads to galactic science team to […]
The Transit of Venus in front of the Sun: Clouds did not spoil the show!
More than 750 people on the campus of the Université de Montréal Astrophysicists from the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ), the Université de Montréal, McGill University, the Montreal planetarium, and the amateur astronomers from the Société d’Astronomie du Planétarium de Montréal and from the Fédération des Astronomes Amateurs du Québec (FAAQ) welcomed […]
Bernard Malenfant receives the 2012 UdeM Principal’s Award
The first edition of the UdeM Principal’s Award was attributed to the administrative and support staff members of the Université de Montréal (UdeM). The ceremony was held on June 5th 2012, at the cafeteria Chez Valère on the UdeM campus, with the university Principal Guy Breton, and the Human Resources Vice-Principal, Anne-Marie Boisvert. Bernard Malenfant, […]
The Transit of Venus in front of the Sun: a must-see at the Université de Montréal
The Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ), the Université de Montréal, McGill University, the Montreal planetarium, Espace pour la Vie, the Société d’Astronomie du Planétarium de Montréal, the Fédération des Astronomes Amateurs du Québec (FAAQ) and Rio Tinto Alcan are inviting the public to look up and observe a rare phenomenon: the transit […]
Two scholarships for the FRQ-NT international internships for the CRAQ
Seyed-Yashar Hezavehe, from McGill University, and Alexandre Alarie, from Université Laval, both received a scholarship of the FRQ-NT international internships program. With this scholarship, Seyed-Yashar Hezavehe will collaborate with the astrophysics group at CalTech (USA), to work on the use of gravitational lenses to understand the properties of dark matter. Alexandre Alarie will travel to […]
Explore wonders of the cosmos at McGill University
Fascinated by the night sky? Intrigued by the wonders of outer space? A series of public outreach activities organized by the McGill Astrophysics and Cosmology Group now offers the opportunity to learn from researchers about phenomena ranging from the transit of Venus to the evolution of the universe. Close to 50 people turned out on […]
Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay receives the 2012 Plaskett Medal
The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) awarded the J.S Plaskett Medal 2012 to Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay for the best 2012 Canadian PhD thesis in astrophysics. Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay finished his PhD thesis in 2011 at the physics department at the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Professor Pierre Bergeron. […]