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A new technique has uncovered an extrasolar planet hidden in Hubble Space Telescope images taken 11 years ago. continue

As an official Special Project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, BLAST! will be screening in communities around the world! Featuring Barth Netterfield, Balloon Borne Astrophysics, University of Toronto.

WASHINGTON — A Canadian-led team of astronomers has captured images of three giant planets outside our solar system, orbiting a distant star known as HR8799. continue

A team of physicists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Toronto have found new clues in the magnetic fields of ancient meteorites about conditions at the beginning of the solar system. continue

So much attention has been paid to the similarities and differences between Earth and Mars that we often look to the ancient red planet for signposts in our own planet’s future. A U of T physicist, whose work is published this week in the prestigious international journal Science, may have explained some key differences in [...]

University of Toronto astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a star similar to the sun. Three scientists from astronomy and astrophysics used the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to take images of the young star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 (which lies outside the solar system at about [...]

Astronomers have taken what may the first picture of a planet orbiting a star similar to the sun. continue

“Yes,” says Bob Garrison of the Department of Astronomy. “That’s actually a very accurate way of putting it.” The first two elements—hydrogen and helium—were formed during the Big Bang, but because the post-Bang universe was expanding rapidly, temperatures weren’t high enough to generate the other 100-plus elements. These were formed inside stars. The first stars [...]

Name: Noushin Nabavi. Age: 25. Program: Second-year PhD student in cell and systems biology at University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus. Thesis: Intracellular trafficking in bone cells. The study: Nabavi, along with members of the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, wanted to study the conditions experienced by astronauts, who lose 1 to 2 [...]