Sarah Gallagher Named Science Advisor to the Canadian Space Agency
August 18, 2020
Mark Baker is Western's Recipient of the 2019 OUSA Award for Teaching Excellence
August 16, 2020
Western News: Western Space team theorizes rare exomoon discovery
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Jeffery Renaud ,Western News , June 23, 2020
Western astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own – an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. Until then, however, the mere possibility of the find sparks excitement over our biggest questions about the universe.
New York Times: This NASA Mission May Cause an Artificial Meteor Shower
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Jonathan O'Callaghan ,New York Times , May 13, 2020
A study says the DART mission’s collision with an asteroid near Earth may liberate enough debris to reach Earth’s atmosphere.
Western News: Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar
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Jason Winders ,Western News , April 15, 2020Researchers, led by Western University’s Sarah Gallagher, using the Gemini North telescope on Hawai’i’s Maunakea have detected the most energetic wind from any quasar ever measured. This outflow, which is travelling at nearly 13% of the speed of light, carries enough energy to dramatically impact star formation across an entire galaxy.
Nature: The discovery of cosmic fullerenes
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Paul Woods ,Nature Astronomy , April 14, 2020
In 2010, the Spitzer Space Telescope detected evidence of a complex form of carbon that had never been seen in extraterrestrial environments. Jan Cami recounts the discovery of buckminsterfullerene in space.
