A cosmic drama unfolded over southern Ontario on the night of Friday, Nov. 18, triggering an international collaboration and a meteorite hunt. Just before midnight Eastern time, the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona detected a small object heading toward Eart …
Western professors Tima Bansal and Gordon Osinski are helping explain why Research Matters, a new province-wide campaign by the Council of Ontario Universities to showcase new stories and ideas emerging from Ontario university research.
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard Vorobyov present a new model of brown dwarf formation that unites the best parts of existing theories and has far-reaching implications for understanding the population of low mass objects in the universe.
Western’s effort to keep an eye on the sky just got a little help from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Western University defines excellence in many ways, but with one award – the Western Award of Excellence. This year’s seven top staff members will be honoured at a special ceremony on Feb. 16.
Studying images compiled by NASA, an astronomer from The University of Western Ontario has proved the existence of the first Trojan asteroid found to share Earth’s orbit. The findings of Paul Wiegert and his colleagues at Athabasca University and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope were published today as the cover story for the July 28 issue of distinguished journal, Nature.
Some students are chastised for having their heads in space. A new training program led by The University of Western Ontario will ensure they are rewarded for it – for thinking about space in new ways, that is.
Astronomers from across the country are gathering in London during the next four days to set the course of Canadian astronomical research for the next decade and celebrate Canada’s role in astronomical and astrophysical research.
With the national media focused on Grimsby, Ontario, a
scientifically-fuelled scavenger hunt – led by a team of
Western researchers – has now produced three golf ball-sized
fragments of meteorite from the small town nestled between Lake
Ontario and the Niagara Escarpment.
GRIMSBY, ONT. – When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after
9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn’t think much of it. That is,
until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom’s
Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the
‘unusual’ rocks he later found on the car’s hood, Garchinski
chalked up the incident to vandalism and filed a police report.
A golf ball-sized fragment of the meteorite that lit up the skies
of southern Ontario three weeks ago has been recovered in Grimsby,
Ontario.
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario have released
footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than
a full moon.
For some, getting published in the journal Nature would be
achieving the Holy Grail for research. It is the gold stamp of
approval signaling a researcher’s work is innovative, provides new
insight and is among “the best.”
Western professors Tima Bansal and Gordon Osinski are helping explain why Research Matters, a new province-wide campaign by the Council of Ontario Universities to showcase new stories and ideas emerging from Ontario university research.
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, Western’s Shantanu Basu and University of Vienna’s Eduard Vorobyov present a new model of brown dwarf formation that unites the best parts of existing theories and has far-reaching implications for understanding the population of low mass objects in the universe.
Western’s effort to keep an eye on the sky just got a little help from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Western University defines excellence in many ways, but with one award – the Western Award of Excellence. This year’s seven top staff members will be honoured at a special ceremony on Feb. 16.
Studying images compiled by NASA, an astronomer from The University of Western Ontario has proved the existence of the first Trojan asteroid found to share Earth’s orbit. The findings of Paul Wiegert and his colleagues at Athabasca University and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope were published today as the cover story for the July 28 issue of distinguished journal, Nature.
Some students are chastised for having their heads in space. A new training program led by The University of Western Ontario will ensure they are rewarded for it – for thinking about space in new ways, that is.
Astronomers from across the country are gathering in London during the next four days to set the course of Canadian astronomical research for the next decade and celebrate Canada’s role in astronomical and astrophysical research.
With the national media focused on Grimsby, Ontario, a
scientifically-fuelled scavenger hunt – led by a team of
Western researchers – has now produced three golf ball-sized
fragments of meteorite from the small town nestled between Lake
Ontario and the Niagara Escarpment.
GRIMSBY, ONT. – When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after
9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn’t think much of it. That is,
until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom’s
Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the
‘unusual’ rocks he later found on the car’s hood, Garchinski
chalked up the incident to vandalism and filed a police report.
A golf ball-sized fragment of the meteorite that lit up the skies
of southern Ontario three weeks ago has been recovered in Grimsby,
Ontario.
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario have released
footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than
a full moon.
For some, getting published in the journal Nature would be
achieving the Holy Grail for research. It is the gold stamp of
approval signaling a researcher’s work is innovative, provides new
insight and is among “the best.”