From your balcony right up to the stars!
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February 28, 2024
The Earth is our natural spaceship, and carries us along on its journey through space. Its movements provide the rhythm for our measurement of time,...Read more
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The Biosphère, at the heart of the flyway of migratory birds
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June 7, 2023
Parc Jean-Drapeau, the setting for the Biosphère, is an ideal place to observe migrating birds in the spring and in the fall, especially for early...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
Make it count!
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July 3, 2019
In the information and mobile-technology age, it’s easier than ever to immortalize the spectacles that nature presents. Were you aware that when you...Read more
The solar eclipse and your eyes
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August 17, 2017
The Sun is a star of light. It emits a radiance that dazzles us when we try to observe it directly. We instinctively close our eyes, which protects...Read more
Gardening means cultivating life
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May 13, 2016
Gardening is a lot more than growing plants: it’s cultivating life! And whoever cultivates life has to demonstrate patience and tolerance. You’ll be...Read more
A rendezvous with Venus and Jupiter
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August 15, 2014
In the next few days, the two brightest planets will get together at dawn for one of the most impressive encounters you can observe. What’s happening...Read more
Saturn, the ringed beauty
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May 2, 2014
Galileo saw them in 1610 with his primitive telescope, but he believed that the planet was decked out with a pair of ears. Forty-five years later,...Read more
