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November 15 2024

Heidi White Honored with the “Permission to Dream Award” for Outstanding Astronomy Outreach

We are thrilled to announce that IREx and OMM Outreach Officer Heidi White has received…

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November 14 2024

Alexandrine L’Heureux at the Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers (PASEA)

The Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers (PASEA) took place from September 2 to 6 in…

IREx in Action

November 1 2024

My time at IREx : Yayaati Chachan

Yayaati Chachan joined IREx in September 2022. He was a CITA National and MSI fellow…

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October 30 2024

Alexandrine L’Heureux wins the Lumbroso Grant for IREx Ambassadors in 2024

Alexandrine L’Heureux, IREx member and doctoral student at Université de Montréal, is this year’s recipient…

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October 25 2024

My time at iREx: Roseane de Lima Gomes

Roseane de Lima Gomes joined IREx in May 2023 to complete an internship at the…

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October 22 2024

Discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet in the habitable zone – Interview with Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy

Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy a Postdoctoral researcher at McGill University with the Trottier Institute for Research on…

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October 16 2024

Prix Marie-Victorin: another star for René Doyon

René Doyon, professor in the Department of Physics at Université de Montréal, is the 2024…

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October 6 2024

Astronomers at IREx Dive Deeper into “Steam-World” Exoplanet GJ 9827 d

A recent paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters, led by Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, a Ph.D. candidate at the…

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September 19 2024

Taking a star’s temperature

UdeM astronomers find a way to measure temperature changes in a star with greater-than-ever precision,…

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September 12 2024

IREx Researchers Contribute to Stunning New Webb Observations of Star-Forming Cluster in Perseus

Researchers at the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) are celebrating their contribution to…

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September 10 2024

Lisa Đặng at the 73rd meeting of Nobel laureates in Lindau

Lisa Đặng, a Banting postdoctoral fellow who has been with IREx for several years, recently…

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September 10 2024

My Thesis in 400 Words – Kim Morel

Kim Morel, a MSc student at IREx, recently completed her degree at the Université de…

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