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Western astronomer Dr. Shantanu Basu along with colleague Dr. Eduard Vorobyov of Vienna University in Austria have uncovered the possible origin of brown dwarf stars.
[Press release, Western News article]
Western astronomer Dr. Paul Wiegert is part of a team of fellow Canadian astronomers who have discovered Earth's first Trojan asteroid.
Fellow team member, and the principal author, Dr. Martin Connors is a former Londoner who graduated from the astronomy program at Western.
The third team member is Dr. Christian Veillet, who is presently the executive director of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope.
Western astronomer Dr. Jan Cami discovers Buckyballs in the neighbourhood of a young planetary nebula in our milkyway galaxy.
Dr. Els Peeters and graduate student Sarah Malek were also involved in this groundbreaking discovery.
PhD candidate Meghan McGill receives the 2009 William H. Wehlau Scholarship.
Professor Jan Cami and colleagues take new high resolution images of supergiant star Betelgeuse. See details.
Astronomers are using stereoscopic projection as an exciting new computing tool.
