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September 8 2020

René Doyon, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

The iREx is very pleased to announce that our Director, René Doyon, is now a…

Awards and Prizes

September 8 2020

Lookback at our 2020 summer internships

As we get ready for the start of a new academic year, we would like…

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August 30 2020

New launch date for Webb

NASA and its international partners, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, are…

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July 10 2020

Citizen scientists help discover two bizarre brown dwarfs in the Milky Way

Thanks to the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have confirmed the existence of two of…

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July 3 2020

Jonathan Gagné becomes the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium’s Scientific Advisor

Jonathan Gagné, a former Banting and Trottier postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research on…

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June 25 2020

Discovering an exoplanet around AU Mic

Astrophysicists detect the orb hidden in the dust and gas debris around the young star…

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May 1 2020

SPIRou at La preuve par l’image

An image submitted by Étienne Artigau, a researcher from iREx, was selected by the jury…

Awards and Prizes

April 20 2020

My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan Chan

Jonathan Chan, an iREx student at Université de Montréal, finished his master degree in 2020.…

Thesis in 400 words

April 6 2020

Iron Rain on WASP-76b

A team of researchers led by David Ehrenreich of the Observatoire astronomique de l’Université de…

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February 29 2020

2020 CASCA Awards

Dunlap Award The Institute for Research on Exoplanets is proud to announce that René Doyon,…

Awards and Prizes

February 28 2020

iREx wins inaugural FRQ DIALOGUE Award

We are very pleased to announce that the iREx has been selected for a DIALOGUE…

Awards and Prizes

February 5 2020

The End of the Spitzer Space Telescope

The Spitzer Space Telescope’s mission ended on January 30, 2020, after scanning the Universe in…

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