The dark side of lava planets
Lisa Dang and collaborators are shedding light on the darkest side of lava planets.
Lisa Dang and collaborators are shedding light on the darkest side of lava planets.
WCA Graduate student, Cam Morgan, won the Graduate Student Committee (GSC) award for best talk at the 2025 Canadian Astronomical Society meeting, held in Halifax.
Cam presented his thesis work in his presentation, "Decoding quenching in the Virgo cluster with spatially resolved star formation".
Faculty, postdocs and grad students of the WCA travelled to Halifax this month, to take part in the 2025 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is fired up to welcome its newest faculty member, Professor Lisa Dang, whose research focuses on uncovering the mysteries of lava planets.
The WCA welcomes new postdoc, Anwesh Majumder.
Using a global network of telescopes, ݮƵ researchers are bringing black holes into view for the very first time.
WCA Director, Will Percival, has been named as one of the three winners of the 2025 Excellence in Science Research Awards.
Lisa Dang, an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of ݮƵ, has been awarded 100 hours of JWST observing time in Cycle 4 for her program, "Surveying Hellish Worlds: Lava Planets as Time Capsules of Thermal Evolution."
from the (DESI) collaboration use the largest 3D map of our universe ever made to track dark energy’s influence over the past 11 billion years. Researchers see hints that dark energy, widely thought to be a “cosmological constant,” might be evolving over time in unexpected ways.
On the same day, DESI has to date to the public.
The first batch of survey data released by the Euclid mission gives us a glimpse into hundreds of thousands of galaxies reaching back 10.5 billion light years - and it's only the beginning.