SpaceNews

Telescope to travel from Europe to Northern Canada over the next 6-9 days

The NASA launch of a new generation telescope at 9:10 PM EST (2:10 AM GMT) Saturday, June 11 was made possible in part by sophisticated engineering expertise from AMEC, the international project ...
NextBigFuture

Canada’s Radio Telescope Has Ground Breaking Astronomy While Partially Operational

Canada’s radio telescope has detected the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB). FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate ...
SpaceNews

Researchers one step closer to developing Canada’s next space telescope

Researchers at Western University and Bishop’s University are the recipients of $1.1 million to develop what could become Canada’s next space telescope mission. The funding from the Canadian Space ...
The Next Web

Canada’s balloon-based SuperBIT telescope could rival NASA’s Hubble next year

Carried on a helium balloon the size of a football stadium, a revolutionary new telescope could forever change the way we carry out our explorations of the Cosmos. Flying at an altitude of 40 km (25 ...
NextBigFuture

Canada’s new digital radio telescope is finding many Fast Radio Bursts as planned

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a radio telescope in British Columbia, has detected a fast radio burst (FRB) on July 25, 2018. They detected the first-ever FRB at ...
The Conversation

Canada’s participation in the world’s largest radio telescope means new opportunities in research and innovation

Pauline Barmby receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canadian Space Agency and was co-chair of the Canadian Astronomical Society’s 2020 Long Range Plan ...