Community of researchers in astrophysics, engineering, computation, and instrumentation working in or near Victoria, BC.

Victoria, British Columbia
Joined January 2019
ARC researchers used James Webb Space Telescope to capture a glimpse at planet formation around young star light-years away. Their study reveals how young planets compete for material with their hosts (!), shedding light on how solar systems evolve. shorturl.at/Ei7Fh #JWST
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#Groundbreaking research using ALMA, led by @uvic grad student @speediejess, discovers gravitational “wiggles” in a planet-forming disk, shedding light on how giant planets like Jupiter form! @PHASTatUVIC @UVicScience @UVicResearch @uvicnews @almaobs @Nature
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Really exciting #astrophysics research from our own @ArcUvic @PHASTatUVIC @CITA_ICAT Fellow Simon Blouin shows how floating crystals shake up the internal gravitational energy content of #WhiteDwarfs and delays their ultimate death by billions of years nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Thanks to new research from UVic's Simon Blouin (a @CITA_ICAT fellow), @uniofwarwick, and @the_IAS, we now know why a population of white dwarf stars have stopped cooling for billions of years. uvic.ca/news/academics/scien…
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Check out the @AAS_Office interview with Julio Navarro and @bllalejandro about the recent FAST discovery of a potential RELHIC. They delve into its implications for the standard model of cosmology, current uncertainties, and future research using the VLA @UVicScience @PHASTatUVIC
Alejandro Benitez-Llambay (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca) and Julio Navarro (@uvic) chat about dark matter: youtu.be/0sXFh6e_K6I The AAS Journal Author Series connects authors w/ their article, their human story & the larger #astronomy community. #TheGoodStuff
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Welcome to the dazzling edge of darkness!🤩 The first images from #ESAEuclid are here: razor-sharp, wide & looking far into the distant Universe. A trifecta never before achieved. Explore these 5⃣ cosmic portraits that show Euclid's full potential esa.int/Science_Exploration/… and👇
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Exciting observations from @NASAWebb Telescope featured in @universetoday! #NRCAstronomy Plaskett Fellow, Madeline Marshall, is part of a team whose observations are shaking up how we think about the shapes of our galaxies: ow.ly/Nm7K50PTq2b
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1/2: Congratulations to ‘rising star’ Dr. Deborah Lokhorst, who received the 2023 Robert J. Trumpler Award, by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for her Ph.D. research at @UofT. We’re proud to have you on the #NRCAstronomy team! astrosociety.org/who-we-are/…
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After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.
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Congratulations to @JAXA_en, @NASA and @esa on a successful XRISM launch! This new space observatory will take a closer look at the hot, often violent ways that galaxies form, and stars burn out. ✨ Credit: JAXA
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This week, @Astro_Jeremy, @Astro_Jenni and NASA’s @Astro_Christina and @Astro_Raja are in Labrador to learn from @drcrater about lunar geology by examining a meteorite impact crater. Exciting! Learn more: asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts…
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Here it is: @NASAWebb’s one-year anniversary image. Called Rho Ophiuchi, this area shows about 50 young stars in a cocoon of gas and dust. At 390 light-years away, it's the closest star-forming region to Earth: go.nasa.gov/3rqX8Tl Webb continues to #UnfoldTheUniverse.
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Congratulations to Dr. @DeborahLokhorst the recipient of the 2023 J.S. Plaskett Medal for the most outstanding doctoral thesis in astronomy or astrophysics!Dr. Lokhorst is currently an Instrument Science Fellow at @NRC_CNRC Herzberg Research Centre. @PHASTatUVIC @UVicScience
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Update, Wed Jan 25: The weather forecast for tonight has been downgraded to 60% or more cloud cover, which would make the comet viewing very challenging. Therefore the @Uvicobservatory will not have the comet viewing tonight. Pls stay tuned for further updates.
Join the @UvicObservatory open house on Jan 25, 7:30 to 9:30 for the first attempt to observe the comet C/2022 E3, aka the 'Green Comet' as it moves toward the point of closest approach to Earth on Feb 1, and brightens each night ☄️ @UVicScience @UVicEvents
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Join the @UvicObservatory open house on Jan 25, 7:30 to 9:30 for the first attempt to observe the comet C/2022 E3, aka the 'Green Comet' as it moves toward the point of closest approach to Earth on Feb 1, and brightens each night ☄️ @UVicScience @UVicEvents
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🪨 Coming up in 2023: the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return its sample of asteroid #Bennu to Earth! It will land in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023 and Canada will receive a portion of the asteroid material: asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites… Video: NASA
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Congratulations to the ORCASat team! @UVicScience @uvic @ORCASatBC
The Orcasat satellite designed by UVic engineering students has officially blasted off, becoming the first from B.C. to head into space. vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/v…
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The Orcasat satellite designed by UVic engineering students has officially blasted off, becoming the first from B.C. to head into space. vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/v…
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The Orion spacecraft captured this picture of the Moon, 6 days after launching from Earth. #Artemis 🌕 🚀 Follow Orion's path in real-time: nasa.gov/specials/trackartem… 📷: @NASAArtemis
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A new chapter of human space exploration has begun! 🚀 #Artemis I launched at 01:47 a.m. ET. The uncrewed test flight will orbit the Moon for at least 6 days during its 26-day mission. Video: NASA
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