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  • To Bennu and back: The OSIRIS-REx mission and the significance to Canada

    UTM Davis (DV) 3140

    Talk Synopsis The OSIRIS-REx mission is a NASA-lead mission to a carbonaceous Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu and return the sample back to Earth in September 2023. An extended mission will take the spacecraft into orbit around near-Earth asteroid Apophis in 2029. OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016 and rendezvoused with Bennu on December 3, 2018. […]

  • In the footsteps of Edmond Halley – Dan Falk

    DV2080 William Davis Building UTM

    Talk Synopsis Halley's Comet has become so well known that it overshadows the English astronomer's other work -- but Edmond Halley (1656-1742) made important contributions to many branches of science. He worked out the size and shape of the Earth, as well as the size of the solar system; he mapped the Earth’s magnetic field, and […]

  • The unreasonable simplicity and complexity of black holes — Prof. Hari Kunduri

    DV2072 William Davis Building UTM

    Talk Synopsis The unreasonable simplicity and complexity of black holes Black holes are the one of the best examples of how investigating the extreme limits of a theory can lead to real physical predictions that can be ultimately verified.  Truly, they must be believed in to be seen. In this talk I will give a […]

  • Annual Meeting & Speaker Night – Under the Sea: An Update on Space-Based Exploration of Jupiter’s Ocean-Bearing Moons.

    DV2072 William Davis Building UTM

    Youth Club - 7:00pm - 7:45pm The Annual Meeting will commence after the Speaker Presentation ~ 9:00pm Speaker Presentation @ 8:00pm: Under the Sea: An Update on Space-Based Exploration of Jupiter’s Ocean-Bearing Moons. In this talk, I will provide an overview of NASA’s Clipper and ESA’s JUICE missions to the Jovian system and discuss the […]

  • Speaker Night – New Observatory

    DV2072 William Davis Building UTM

    Talk Synopsis - Reconnecting Students to the Cosmos with Experiential Learning Abstract: Astronomy education is losing its connection with the night sky. Urbanization, automation, and computerization have all made it less and less likely that a typical astronomy undergraduate will use a telescope as part of their training. Most undergraduates at big urban campuses use […]

  • Canada’s Lunar Rover Mission Update

    DV2072 William Davis Building UTM

    Talk Synopsis The talk will focus on Canada’s Lunar Rover Mission, including a background on lunar exploration, Canada’s role in this international endeavour and the progress made so far on the development of the rover.Perry Edmondson Bio: Perry is a life-long space enthusiast and avid supporter of manned and robotic space exploration. He has over 28 […]

  • Speaker Night – Ivan Semeniuk – MYSTERIES OF THE COSMIC DAWN

    DV2072 William Davis Building UTM

    Talk Synopsis When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched, astronomers looked forward to peering further into space than ever before, and to witnessing the cosmic dawn — the epoch when the first galaxies emerged and set the stage for the universe as we know it today. What happened next was a surprise. Instead of […]

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    Speaker Night – The Hunting Outbursting Young stars Citizen Science Project (HOYS)

    DV2072 William Davis Building UTM

    Talk Synopsis The talk will give a general introduction on the formation of stars and planets. I will show how we are using data from amateur telescopes to monitor the brightness of 1000s of young stars to study their properties. A few selected recent results will also be discussed. At the end I will give […]

  • Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy

    Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

    Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy Please register on the Riverwood website