New tool may unveil inhabitable worlds

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SPIRou, a near-infrared spectropolarimeter, will also investigate the birth of Sun-like stars and their planets Funding for SPIRou, a spectropolarimeter and a high-precision velocimeter optimized for both the detection of habitable Earth twins orbiting around nearby…

Bourse d’excellence académique QS 2013

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François-René Lachapelle est le lauréat de la bourse d’excellence académique QS 2013 Cette bourse décernée par Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, artisan du classement mondial des universités, dont la valeur est de 10 000 dollars, a pour but…

Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay récipiendaire d’un très prestigieux Hubble Fellowship

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Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay est le premier étudiant issu d’une université Québécoise à recevoir le prestigieux « Hubble fellowship ». Le programme « Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship », du Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), est offert aux chercheurs postdoctoraux…

Discovery of the candidate most massive star

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An international research team, that includes Anthony Moffat, Professor Emeritus at the physics department of the Université de Montréal and member of the CRAQ, observed a binary star which birth mass was of the order of…

Astrophysicist Paul Charbonneau writes a book on “Solar and Stellar Dynamos”

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Paul Charbonneau, professor at the physics department of the Université de Montréal and member of the Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec, writes a manual on the theories of Solar and stellar dynamos. This book…

The nature and technology university research centres occupy a significant place in the world

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The nature and technology university research centres are participating in the progress of scientific knowledge, the development of local expertise, and in the attraction of international experts in all fields of natural science and engineering. If…

Robert Lamontagne receives the grade of Knight from the Order of La Pléiade

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Robert Lamontagne, executive director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic, lecturer at the physics department of the Université de Montréal, and member of the CRAQ, is one of the recipient of the grade of Knight from the…

Top-10 of this year’s scientific discoveries by Québec Science.

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Gilles Fontaine, professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the CRAQ, in the top-10 of this year’s scientific discoveries by Québec Science. Gilles Fontaine, professor at the Université de Montréal and member of the…

Recipient of a scholarship from the international internship program of the FRQ-NT

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Sebastien Guillot (McGill University, CRAQ) is the recipient of a scholarship from the international internship program of the FRQ-NT With this scholarship, Sebastien will collaborate with the astrophysics group at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics…

Dorian Pirot is the recipient of the 2012 Eurêka! public prize from the ACFAS

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Dorion Pirot is the recipient of the 2012 Eurêka! public prize from the Association Francophone pour le Savoir (ACFAS) for his scientific illustration of the magnetic Sun. The Sun is an immense sphere of highly-conducting gas….