Perseverance: a rover for exploring the planet Mars
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July 14, 2020
NASA is continuing exploration of the planet Mars by launching the rover Perseverance this summer. The primary goal of this ambitious mission is to...Read more
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Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, an Innu out to conquer the stars
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June 24, 2020
Series: An inspiring astrophysicist This is the start of a series of interviews with Québec women who work in astronomy, woman who’ve made a name for...Read more
The Hoba meteorite : a celestial treasure buried in Namibia
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May 27, 2020
A century ago, a farmer discovered an enormous rock in the African soil: the Hoba meteorite. Weighing more than 60 tons, it’s the biggest meteorite...Read more
The Great Debate on the nature of galaxies
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May 6, 2020
A century ago, a debate was organized in an attempt to solve the mystery of one of the enigmas of astronomy in that period: what is the nature of...Read more
Georges Lemaître: one of the Big Bang inventors
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January 22, 2020
Among the scientists who contributed to the elaboration of the Big Bang theory, Mgr. Georges Lemaître is one of the most important. And yet, the...Read more
The planet Mercury has a rendezvous with the Sun
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November 6, 2019
On November 11, 2019, we’ll be witness to a rare phenomenon: the transit of the planet Mercury in front of the Sun. The planet Mercury’s orbit is...Read more
Susan Jocelyn Bell, the overlooked Nobel Prize winner
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October 16, 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 created a lively controversy when it was awarded to the astrophysicist Anthony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars...Read more
The International Astronomical Union celebrates its 100th anniversary
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September 11, 2019
In July 2019, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) marked the centennial of its founding. After modest beginnings, the organization grew to...Read more
Collision on Jupiter
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August 14, 2019
It’s rare for astronomers to be able to witness a cosmic collision in the solar system. That’s what happened in July 1994, when the comet Shoemaker-...Read more
Apollo 11’s giant leap
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July 17, 2019
There are events of such importance that they’re inscribed forever in the history books. The Apollo 11 mission and the first steps on the Moon belong...Read more
