Scientists Solve the Mystery of Blinking Brown Dwarfs
Brown dwarfs, less massive than stars but more massive than planets, have powerful winds and clouds that vary rapidly, in less than an Earth day. Researchers now have a new model for explaining how this happens.
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NASA’s Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet
An international team, lead by master student Taylor Bell of McGill and iREx, used the NASA Hubble Space Telescope to study an exoplanet that has the unique property of reflecting most of the light it receives from its star.
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Meet the new Trottier Postdoctoral Fellow of iREx
Many new members joined iREx in September 2017. Among them, the new Trottier Postdoctoral Fellow, Neil Cook.
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Our 2017 Summer interns
The start of the fall semester marks the end of the summer internships. Laurent, Steven, Frédéric, Sabrina, Merrin, Laurence and Olivia have made remarkable progress and have obtained very interesting results!
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Over 400 participants at our Astronomy Day
On August 12th, we organized a day of astronomy-related activities on the campus MIL of Université de Montréal. The event was a great success, with activities for astronomy fans of all ages.
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ESO’s La Silla Observatory to Host New Planet Hunter
A new powerful instrument called NIRPS (Near Infra Red Planet Searcher) is to be installed on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile to detect and characterize exoplanets.
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Echoes from our Solar System
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Voyager 1 and 2: 40 years!
The two spacecrafts were sent 40 years ago, in 1977, to study the giant planets of the Solar System. After the flybys of the 4 planets, they continued their journey and are today the farthest man-made objects, reaching the limit of our Solar System.
Learn more on the website of NASA JPL
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Many positions at iREx are announced this fall
We invite applications for Trottier excellence grants for summer internship, for MSc/PhD positions, as well as three postdoctoral fellowships.
See our website for more information
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Astronomy on tap is back!
The next edition of Astronomy on tap MTL in English will take place at McLean's Pub on September 26th and the next one in French will be on October 24th, at Pub l'Île Noire.
For more information and to know the dates of all future events, see our webpage.
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Other events
iREx members organize and participate to many events that are open to all and generally free.
See the list here
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