The 2020 Perseids, a late-evening spectacle
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August 10, 2020
Every year, the month of August brings with it a summer-night classic: the Perseid meteor shower. From August 10 to 14, lovers of the starry sky will...Read more
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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
An inspiring astrophysicist Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, an Innu out to conquer the stars
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June 24, 2020
This is the start of a series of interviews with Québec women who work in astronomy, woman who’ve made a name for themselves in a field dominated by...Read more
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
How universes are created
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January 29, 2020
Just what is a black hole? Why is Pluto no longer a planet? Is there life elsewhere in the Universe? These are questions that come up regularly when...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
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
