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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…
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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…
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Lisa Dang, étudiante du CRAQ, obtient le Prix Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) félicite Lisa Dang, une étudiante du CRAQ et présentement doctorante en astronomie et astrophysique à l’Université McGill, qui s’est méritée le Prix Relève étoile Louis Berlinguet des…
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First light for SPIRou!
After four months of hard work by engineers and scientists from France, Canada, Switzerland and Taiwan, and over a decade in the making, an important milestone has been reached for SPIRou, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)’s new…
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Noemi Giammichele, une ancienne étudiante du CRAQ, reçoit le Prix Relève étoile Louis Berlinguet
Le Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ) félicite Noemi Giammichele, une ancienne étudiante du CRAQ et présentement stagiaire postdoctorale en astronomie et astrophysique à l’Université Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier, qui s’est méritée le Prix Relève étoile Louis…
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Revealing the complexity of the nebula in NGC 1275 with SITELLE
Four researchers from the Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ), PhD student Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais and Professor Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo from the Université de Montréal as well as Professor Laurent Drissen and the postdoctoral researcher Thomas…
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Professor René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship
The Center for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) congratulates René Doyon of the Université de Montréal, member of the CRAQ and director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets…
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Happy birthday OMM!
This year, the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) turns 40. More precisely, during the night of 27 to 28 of April 1978, at 9:30 PM, the first photons officially “touched” the 1.6 m mirror of the Richtey-Chrétien…
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Olivier Hernandez: the new director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan
Olivier Hernandez, director of operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and iREx coordinator, will start a new position as the director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan as of May 1st, 2018. M Hernandez had an…
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Deux astrophysiciennes du CRAQ à TLMEP
La professeure Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo et la coordonnatrice scientifique de l’iREx Marie-Eve Naud discutent de la carrière de l’astrophysicien Stephen Hawking, décédé cette semaine, dans le cadre de l’émission « Tout le monde en parle » du…
About us
The Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) brings together all the astrophysicists in Quebec. Nearly 150 people, including some fifty researchers and their students from Université de Montréal, McGill University, Université Laval, Bishop’s University,…
Our mission
The mission of the Center for research in astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ) is to conduct state-of-the-art scientific research in the field of astronomy and astrophysics in Quebec and to promote Quebec astronomy on the world stage….
Activities
CRAQ researchers and their students organize and participate in a multitude of transfer and outreach activities. Some of these activities are reserved to the scientific community such as international conferences, specialized seminars, summer school and various annual…
