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A Bizarre 200,000-Light-Year-Long Bridge Links a Galaxy to Its Escaping Black Hole The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go unnoticed could have profound implications. That's what happened to Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum when he was looking through Hubble Spac

Canada intends to proceed to full membership in the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), a next-generation radio astronomy observatory bringing together nations from around the world to build and operate cutting-edge radio telescopes.

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum has received the Royal Astronomical Society’s Jackson-Gwilt Medal for innovations in instrumentation.

"We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions." -William Shatner

The Dragonfly Telescope team has developed a new instrument that can see the faint glow of light-emitting, ionized gas.

The Dragonfly Telescope team has developed a new instrument that can see the faint glow of light-emitting, ionized gas.

Swinburne University of Technology researchers have been awarded more than $4.4 million in competitive federal government funding for ARC Discovery

“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.” -Aaron Satie, Star Trek It’s been a remarkable week at Starts With A Bang, and I'm especially proud of the stories we've run on Proxima b, Hubble's limits, the dream of Warp Drive and the Cosmic Neutrino background. If you missed any of them (or any of the others), here's what the past week has held:

Medicine Follow U of T News U of T researchers receive more than $15 million for infrastructure to study brain inflammation, genetics Jennifer Gommerman and Charles Boone are leading two of four research projects at U of T that recently received support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (photos by Nick Iwanyshyn and courtesy of Boone) The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has funded two major projects that will bring new research equipment to the University of Toronto’s Te...

Share An innovative, ground-breaking telescope named Dragonfly is about to undergo a major transformation thanks to nearly $2-million in support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is a unique telescope designed to observe astronomical phenomenon such as extremely faint galaxies and the dark filaments of gas associated with many of them. Dragonfly is the brainchild of  Roberto Abraham, a professor of astronomy and chair of the David A. Dunlap depar...