Computers could give astronomers a badly needed helping hand
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
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This Week’s Sky: January 18 to 24, 2021
Check out lunar features this week as the Moon waxes to gibbous.
Jan 19, 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
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
How Canada is training the next lunar astronauts
This week in space news: Western University is poised to help train a Canadian going into lunar orbit.
Jan 08, 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
This Week’s Sky: December 14 to 20, 2020
Watch Saturn and Jupiter as they come closer together. The winter solstice starts off next week with the pair’s conjunction.
Dec 14, 2020
Canada is all-in on the next lunar leap
Canadian Space Agency announces another round of LEAP projects awarded a total of almost $3 million
Dec 14, 2020
This Week’s Sky: December 7 to December 13, 2020
As the Moon wanes after its last quarter, keep an eye open for Saturn and Jupiter as they come closer to their Great Conjunction. Also, on the night of December 13-14, the Geminid Meteor Shower reaches its peak.
Dec 07, 2020
