La professeure de l’Université de Montréal Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, est l’une des deux personnes finalistes du prix Relève scientifique 2019. Professeure depuis 2013 au Département de physique de l’Université de Montréal et membre du Centre de recherche…

Quebec astrophysicist Gilles Fontaine, Professor at the Department of Physics at the Université de Montréal and member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), has just received an unusual honor by having his…

Trois ans après la première pelletée de terre, le Complexe des sciences du campus MIL accueille la communauté universitaire. Le Complexe des sciences de l’Université de Montréal, pierre angulaire du nouveau campus MIL, a été inauguré vendredi,…

An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b. Credit: Alex Boersma Ever since the discovery of the first exoplanet in the 1990s, astronomers have made steady progress towards finding and probing planets located in the habitable zone…

Martin Aubé, physics teacher at Cégep de Sherbrooke and member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), along with four of his students launched a stratospheric balloon in Timmins, Ontario, to collect data…

New study suggests that the nightsides of hot Jupiters share clouds made of minerals  Graphic: Schematic of clouds on the night side of a hot Jupiter exoplanet. The underlying atmosphere is over 800 C, hot enough to vaporize rocks. Atmospheric motion from…

Des vagues dans l’espace-temps – Splendeurs des étoiles massives, de Laurent Drissen, offre une description du rôle important mais méconnu des étoiles massives dans l’écologie galactique et l’évolution chimique de l’Univers. Le 14 septembre 2015, des…

Ismaël Moumen, a PhD student at Université Laval and member of the Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), is behind a development project using astronomy as a tool to integrate Quebec’s Aboriginal youth. The…

An international team led by a UdeM astronomer gets a clearer picture of what is likely the most abundant type of planet in the universe. Artist’s illustration of gas streaming from GK 3470 b. Credit : NASA,…

The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) was present at the 2019 Eureka Festival! Enthusiastic CRAQ students took part in this 13th edition of the festival which took place in the Montreal Old Port…

Deux images soumises par des chercheurs du Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec ont été sélectionnées par le jury du concours La preuve par l’image, de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas), et font désormais…

McGill University astrophysicist and member of the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) Matt Dobbs is the recipient of the 2019 Killam Research Fellowship in Natural Sciences. Dobbs, a professor in McGill’s Department of…

Annabelle Richard-Laferrière, membre du CRAQ et finissante au programme de maîtrise en physique sous la supervision de la professeure Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, a reçu la prestigieuse bourse Gates Cambridge Scholarship pour poursuivre son doctorat en astrophysique à…

Professor Nicolas Cowan of McGill University, and member of the CRAQ, is the 2019 recipient of the inaugural Harvey B. Richer Gold Medal from the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA). Professor Cowan is an established leader in…

An international team of astrophysicists, led by researchers from the Université de Montréal, has identified a star on which a sodium-rich asteroid has crashed, drastically transforming its apparent color. These results raise many questions about the…

L’enseignant et chercheur au Département de physique du Cégep de Sherbrooke Martin Aubé prononcera la conférence d’ouverture à l’occasion de la cérémonie soulignant le 100e anniversaire de l’Union astronomique internationale qui se tiendra au palais des…

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard,…

Grand défenseur du ciel étoilé, Martin Aubé, enseignant et chercheur au Département de physique du Cégep de Sherbrooke, professeur associé à l’Université Bishop’s de même qu’à l’Université de Sherbrooke et membre du Centre de recherche en…

A Canadian-led team of scientists, including CRAQ members at McGill University, has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way…

The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, and our skies are filled with them. The discovery, led by Dr Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay from the…