Mar 6, 2017
Feature Guest: Gurtina Besla
The 14th annual Expanding Canada’s Frontiers symposium was hosted on January 27th, 2017 by the Astronomy and Space Exploration Society, a student group based at the University of Toronto. This year’s unique theme was “What Ifs: Is the Impossible, Possible?”!
And now in a special...
Feb 20, 2017
Feature Guest: Paul Sutter
Imagine travelling a very long way in space only to return just where you started, but upside down. Or consider living in an exotic donut-shaped universe, or one with far more than our usual three dimensions. The amazing thing is that we very well may. Today we’re joined at The Star Spot by...
Feb 6, 2017
Feature Guest: Terry Kucera
We see it there in the sky every day of our lives. And yet our own local star, the sun, is still in many ways a mystery. What causes the solar cycle? How does the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, reach a staggering temperature of over 1 million degrees. And could a really big solar storm...
Jan 23, 2017
Feature Guest: Matt Malkan
Was the early
universe green? That’s the startling discovery by a team of UCLA
astronomers studying the youngest galaxies in our universe. Why
green? That’s what I’ll try to find out when Professor Matt Malkan
joins us here at The Star Spot.
Current in Space
As 2017 gets underway, Anuj...
Jan 9, 2017
Feature Guest: Suzanna Nagy
Suzanna Nagy is President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Vancouver Centre. In May 2016 she took advantage of a rare and unusual aerial phenomena - a clear sky in downtown Vancouver - to share the wonders of our solar system with hundreds of people. The event was the transit...