This week in space news: Western University is poised to help train a Canadian going into lunar orbit.
Jan 08, 2021
Machine learning has been around for decades, but with quantum computers and cloud storage quickly maturing, it will enter likely the mainstream in astronomy soon.
Jan 20, 2021
Canadian Space Agency announces another round of LEAP projects awarded a total of almost $3 million
Dec 14, 2020
Features
This Week’s Sky: January 18 to 24, 2021
Check out lunar features this week as the Moon waxes to gibbous.
Jan 19, 2021
Turning fiction into reality
“I’m certainly not the only one moved to investigation by artistic representations of space and astronomy,” SkyNews editor Allendria Brunjes writes in her column.
Jan 15, 2021
January 2021: Planets at a glance
This month, Uranus completes its retrograde loop and resumes its eastward motion in the skies, and Mercury returns to view. Here’s more on the planetary events this month.
Jan 11, 2021
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This Week’s Sky: January 11 to 17, 2021
With a new Moon in the sky this week, it’s the perfect time to look for some deep-sky objects
Jan 11, 2021
This Week’s Sky: January 4 to 10, 2021
Jupiter and Saturn provide a continuation of last month’s show, meeting with Mercury post sunset this week.
Jan 05, 2021
This Week’s Sky: December 28, 2020 to January 3, 2021
Ring in the new year as the Earth reaches perihelion and a meteor shower streaks the sky.
Dec 29, 2020
Seeing tonight’s Jupiter-Saturn conjunction
Weather report for December 21 got you down? See through the clouds — or at least commiserate — with RASC and Explore Scientific!
Dec 21, 2020
This Week’s Sky: December 21 to 27, 2020
Saturn and Jupiter meet in their closest conjunction since 1623, a minor meteor shower peaks and the Moon’s Lunar X will be visible for western Canadians.
Dec 19, 2020
Canadian camera to go on exoplanet hunting mission
Canadian technology will be flying on the Roman space telescope in 2025, on course to capture images of planets outside our Solar System.
Dec 16, 2020
Explore the current issue
- 01. Canada's Top 10 for 2021
- 02. The in-betweeners
- 03. Scopes for starters
- 04. Down to a science
- 05. In the eye of the beholder
Observing
A southern solar eclipse
A total solar eclipse will be passing over parts of South America on December 14.
Dec 03, 2020
New Moon allows Geminids to shine
The Geminids promise to give a great show this year as the prolific meteor shower peaks during a new Moon.
Dec 03, 2020
How do I see the zodiacal light?
How to see the zodiacal light, the leftovers of our cosmic neighbourhood’s formation some 4.5 billion years ago.
Sep 14, 2020
Getting ready for the Perseid Meteor Shower
Here are some observation and photographing tips for the Perseids, which peak August 12-13, 2020.
Aug 04, 2020
About the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) began as the Toronto Astronomical Club on December 1, 1868. The eight men who gathered to share their interests were not professional astronomers, just working-class citizens with a passion for astronomy.
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