UofT D. A. Dunlap Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Congratulations to Professor @reneehlozek, who has been elected to the prestigious College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada - one of Canada's highest academic honours! You can read the full story, here: bit.ly/Hlozek_RSC

Congratulations to Professor Adam Hincks, PhD student Martine Lokken, and Professor J. Richard Bond for their work on detecting the elusive hot gas that populates the space between galaxies! @UofTAstro @CITA_ICAT @DunlapInstitute @uStMikes

Astronomers at @UofT, @MIT and elsewhere have detected a persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. Read more on this fascinating discovery from the CHIME/FRB Collaboration, here: dunlap.utoronto.ca/astronomers-de… #UofT

Listen to @DunlapInstitute's Lamiya Mowla discuss the James Webb Space Telescope on @AJStream. Now live here: bit.ly/3P8MkQJ

Congratulations to Prof. Yanqin Wu, who been named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Astronomy & Astrophysics category! gf.org/announcements/ @GuggFellows #guggenheimfellowship2022

It's Moon Monday! There are full moons, blood moons, wolf moons... but what's the difference? @AstroIlana breaks it all down, on our latest edition of Cosmos From Your Couch. You can watch it now - youtube.com/watch?v=9RDLDi… @UofT @UofTAstro #uoft

"Time travel is possible - maybe..." Our latest "Cosmos From Your Couch" video is out! Learn all about time travel from Astronomer Adiv Paradise. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=Xjl1Bu… @UofTAstro @UofT @UofTArtSci

BREAKING NEWS: the new, improved Dragonfly is now also a galactic gas detector. “The upgrade will reveal ionized gas clouds surrounding galaxies on a scale never been done before”- @DeborahLokhorst. Read more about the telescope's metamorphosis, here: dunlap.utoronto.ca/new-dragonfly

.@GwenEadie of @UofTArtSci's @UofTAstro & @UofTStatSci has won a 2021 Polanyi Prize in Physics for her work in the emerging field of astrostatistics, which is providing new insights into dark matter and its impact on galaxies. 🌌 uoft.me/7sV

#BlackESTEEM is thrilled to be hosting @ikape_margaret (Astronomer,Astrophysicist and Mathematician) for our Chill N’ Chat with Black Girls in STEM. Margaret is a PhD Candidate at the Dunlap institute for astronomy and astrophysics @UofTAstro @UofT. #BlackwomeninSTEM

An international team detects a type Ia supernova at birth. This is the earliest detection of this type of supernova to date. The results have been published in the scientific journal @NatureAstronomy. More info 👉 ieec.cat/content/media/… 📸 @NASA/@chandraxray

Very early detections of SN 2018aoz reveal a blue supernova that very quickly becomes red due to a blanketing effect caused by Fe-peak elements. This hints at unusual processes in some normal type Ia SN explosions. Ni, Moon et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155… @yuanqini @mrdrout

A research team at @UofTAstro and @DunlapInstitute, lead by graduate student Yuan Qi Ni, as well as Profs Dae-Sik Moon and Maria Drout, has detected the earliest-known thermonuclear supernova explosion! Learn more about this exciting discovery here: astro.utoronto.ca/earliest-detec…

Meet Astronomer Taylor Kutra and learn all about her research into protoplanetary disks - the gas and dust surrounding a young star. You can catch Taylor on our new video series, Cosmos From Your Couch - the link is here: youtu.be/taCCziVgllsMeet #UofT #Research #WomenInSTEM

Learn about ethical considerations in astronomy with PhD student Steffani Grondin at the Stellar Spectacles Symposium! She is moderating a panel with guest speakers to discuss ethics in astronomy. Book tickets ($5 general admission, free for students) at asxsociety.com.

Research shows starlight may shape Protoplanetary disks - which are the birthplace of planets. We asked U of T astronomer Taylor Kutra how a little starlight can go such a long way. The latest Cosmos From Your Couch is here: youtu.be/taCCziVglls @UofT @UofTAstro @UofTArtSci

Congratulations to @CITA_ICAT Professor Norm Murray for being awarded the 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysical Insights! cita.utoronto.ca/norman-murray-…

Looking for something to do this week? Come to the next AstroTour this Thursday at 8 PM ET on YouTube (youtu.be/n3oIthFkBNk). Taylor Kutra will be sharing about discoveries by women in astronomy!. We will have demos after the talk on Zoom (bit.ly/3thTkCC)!

"I suspect there is alien life out there." Astronomer Adiv Paradise explains how this may be the case, on our intro edition of "Cosmos From Your Couch! Watch the first in this video series - the direct link is here: youtube.com/watch?v=tVfwv8… #Astro #Astronomy #Astroposts #Aliens

Astronomers from #UofT's @DunlapInstitute focus robotic eyes on the Milky Way, our cosmic home 🌌 uoft.me/7tH