Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto

Join us on at this Friday for the chance to win great prizes, such as an Artemis Lego set and a Moon Lamp! We'll see you at The Great Hall Toronto on June 19! Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm!

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Meet our third speaker, Biprateep Dey! At , he will be telling us about how we can use distant galaxies to map our universe! 🌌

Join Biprateep, Tobias, and Erika next week at The Great Hall Toronto on June 19th!

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Congratulations to David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics professor Michael Reid for being awarded the 2026 President's Teaching Award, along with four other faculty members!

Five faculty members receive 2026 President's Teaching Awards Five University of Toronto faculty members have been recognized with 2026 President's Teaching Awards -- the university's highest honour for teaching excellence, educational innovation and educational leadership.

Join us at The Great Hall Toronto on June 19th for , where our second speaker, Tobias Géron, will tell us about how bars in galaxies may be the source of their demise!

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Meet our first speaker for coming up Friday, June 19 at The Great Hall Toronto! PhD Candidate Erika Hornecker will be talking about Active Galactic Nuclei, caused by material falling into the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies!

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Professor Ting Li works with Dunlap Institute senior research associate Dr. Shaojie Chen, graduate student Jiayi (Emma) Xu and undergraduate student Ziang (Frank) Chen to install their Digital Micrometre Device-based spectrograph onto the telescope at the University of Toronto's observatory on the site of the E. C. Carr Astronomical Observatory. Located in The Blue Mountains, this site, owned by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (), boasts beautiful clear skies, ideal for testing new scientific instruments once the sun goes down!

👋 Hello from CHORD! University of Toronto Astronomy graduate student Sophia Da Costa poses with fellow grad students Evan Davies-Velie from McGill University, and Tobias Weiss from York University. This drone shot shows the 80 completed dishes so far, 8 of which are fully operational and ready to take data!

Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD is a radio observatory located at the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near Penticton, British Columbia. The finished array will consist of 512 dishes at the main site, as well as 64 dishes at two outrigger stations at the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia and at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in California, and is expected to be complete in 2027. It's primary goal will be to search for Fast Radio Bursts, mysterious and transient radio signals caused by an astrophysical phenomenon not yet understood by scientists!

Congratulations to Prof. Roberto Abraham, who has been appointed a University Professor, a designation that represents the university’s highest and most distinguished academic rank!

Roberto Abraham, John Borrows and Nicholas Terpstra named University Professors Three University of Toronto faculty members have been appointed University Professors, a designation that represents the university's highest and most distinguished academic rank.

Today the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics turns 18 years old! On May 21, 2008, the Institute was established on the University of Toronto St. George campus, thanks to the endowment received after the sale of the David Dunlap Observatory. We're so proud of all that has been achieved in the last 18 years and are excited to see what comes next!

Learn more about the Dunlap Institute at https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/