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HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project for the direct imaging of exoplanets
August 15 2018

HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project for the direct imaging of exoplanets

HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project from Université Laval led by Prof. Simon Thibault,…

2018
Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years
August 8 2018

Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years

Ottawa and Quebec announce $4M in funding for the world-class observatory through 2023. With a…

Press Releases
Gaia: a new era for astronomy
June 4 2018

Gaia: a new era for astronomy

Gai­­a second data release was published on the 25th of April 2018. Since then, astronomers…

2018
Lisa Dang obtains the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinget prize of FRQNT
May 24 2018

Lisa Dang obtains the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinget prize of FRQNT

Rémi Quirion, Quebec’s Chief Scientist, announces that Lisa Dang, a PhD student and member of…

Awards and Prizes
First light for SPIRou !
May 23 2018

First light for SPIRou !

After four months of hard work by engineers and scientists from France, Canada, Switzerland and…

2018
Prix du recteur 2018: Olivier Hernandez receives a special mention
May 22 2018

Prix du recteur 2018: Olivier Hernandez receives a special mention

Olivier Hernandez, former iREx Coordinator and former Director of Operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM),…

Awards and Prizes
René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship
May 8 2018

René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship

Astrophysicist René Doyon, professor at UdeM’s Department of Physics, director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and…

Awards and Prizes
TESS and iREx: a great synergy for exoplanetary system studies
April 15 2018

TESS and iREx: a great synergy for exoplanetary system studies

Wednesday the 18th of April at 18h51 saw the launch of the space satellite TESS…

2018
Discovering the closest habitable worlds: the grand planet survey
April 5 2018

Discovering the closest habitable worlds: the grand planet survey

SPIRou’s long awaited large planet survey will be debuting soon. This program will extent for…

Press Releases
Olivier Hernandez: the new Director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan
April 5 2018

Olivier Hernandez: the new Director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan

Olivier Hernandez, Director of Operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and iREx Coordinator, will start…

Team
My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan St-Antoine
April 4 2018

My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan St-Antoine

Jonathan St-Antoine, an iREx student at Université de Montréal, finished his master degree in 2018.…

Thesis in 400 words
When do aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away?
February 27 2018

When do aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away?

Brown dwarfs, the larger cousins of giant planets, undergo atmospheric changes from cloudy to cloudless…

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